Here are past items from my webpages
that carried news from our psychodrama colleagues internationally.
Norway:
January, 2010: Jana Segula (
Email:
janasegula@start.no
) writes: We now have three training institutes:
(1) the Norwegian Psychodrama Institute,
in Oslo, founded in 1986 by Eva Rřine and Monica Westberg. This
institute is associated with the Norwegian Association for
Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy; the Nordic Board
of Examiners (for psychodrama); Psychodrama Institute fur Europa
(PIfE); and FEPTO—the general European organization. .
(2) the Norwegian Psychodrama Academy in
Lier (a rural country side outside of Oslo) started by me and my
colleaque Kristina Malm in 2001, associated with FEPTO, British
Psychodrama Association and Norwegian Association for Psychodrama,
Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
(3) and, most recently, the Trondheim
Psychodrama Institute situated in Trondheim (Middle Norway) has
been started by Mai Antonsen in 2007, and is associated with
Norwegian Association for Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group
Psychotherapy.
All of psychodramatists that run
psychodrama education in Norway now have been students there and
certified as T.E.P.s by Nordic Board of Examiners. I myself
was a main trainer and supervisor there from 1994 to 2000. At my
institute near Oslo, we have had and have three ongoing classes on
three different levels with 42-52 students. Our education focuses
on classic Morenian psychodrama (philosophy, theory, method) and
further on adapting it to different fields of society (through,
amongst else, guest teachers and student projects) and finally on
education for psychodrama therapists, trainers and supervisors
underlining the creative and artistic aspects of psychodrama. Our
school is organized as part time and divided in three levels:
Group Leadership (3 years), Classic Psychodrama (3 more years) and
Therapist/Trainer/Supervisor Education (2 more years). We accept
students from all different professions and invest into
psychodrama being taken back to a variety of organizations and
fields.
It is still a big
challenge to make psychodrama known and accepted in the society,
but the progress is visible: the opening to try and embrace the
method is slowly widening within therapy, schools, social work and
organizations.
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January, 2003: Eduardo Verdu <
npi@psykodrama.no>
writes: We have about 300 people involved with psychodrama,
and a national organization: Psykodramaforeningen i Norge (PIN); a
mixture of journal and newsletter, "Mercurius," published 5 times
a year; a website (
www.psykodrama.no
) in Norwegian (at the moment), with information about
psychodrama, the institutes, training and psychodramatists. We
hope to put up some papers about psychodrama in the future. Our
organization is affiliated with both FEPTO and PIFE (
Psychodrama Institut fur Europa).
Our training
institute has a dual name: Norsk Psykodrama Institutt / Det Norske
Moreno Institutt, and it has seven active training groups in
different cities, involving about 140 students. Our major
trainers include: Eva Rřine : eva@psykodrama.no ; Eduardo
Verdu : eduardo@psykodrama.no
;
Lillian
Borge:
lborge@online.no
; Gro Slettemark : post@psykodramasenteret.no ; and
Marc Treadwell : mtreadwell@t-online.de . Our training
doesn't have different "tracks" yet, but we plan a separate type
of training for applications of sociodrama and sociometry in
organizational development, leadership development and
supervision. There isn't much overlap with Playback Theatre at
present. (There is another institute that started in Norway last
year . Unfortunately we have no information about them at
present.)
Psychodrama
was first introduced by Ildri and Bob Ginn and later on Eva Rřine
started the Norwegian Psychodrama Insitute in 1986. She is the
pioneer in Norway. The institute and structure of the education
has slowly been built up over the years and is now spread over all
Norway. In Bodř ( Northern Norway ) a psychiatric hospital has
been buying educations from us since 1996 . University hospital in
Tromsř ( even further north ) starts in 2003 with assistant level
education. In the last few years psychodrama has moved from Oslo
to Bergen, Trondheim, Bodř, and Tromsř; and we are aiming to start
another group in Aarhus/Denmark in june 2003. The main books
being used by students in training include those in Norwegian by
Eva Rřine and others by Peter Kellermann, Adam Blatner, Leif Dag
Blomkvist, and of course Moreno, and some others. Our students
read the professional literature in English, a few prefer German,
and a few books are translated to Swedish which is easy for us to
understand.
This
year the conference had 3 invited guests from abroad and
around 30 active psychodrama professionals from the
country. The international participants: Inci Doganer from
Turkey, who gave a very nice philosophical lecture on Etics of
Psychodrama and also a workshop: The place of the moral
values. Bernd Fichtenhofer from Germany had a workshop (with Monika Ścibak together)
with the titel: The
Fool, the mask behind the mask? Or what else?. I as third guest
(Gábor Pintér, Hungary) took the responsibility of the warming
up large group, and a workshop: Healing stories in the force
field of the King’s, Wise Man’s and Fool’s triangle.
After a nice formal opening lead by Sorina Bîrle, Éva
Varró and Radu Vulcu a real theather group of the faculty of
Babes-Bolyai University (Director: Miriam Cuibus) came and
played “Scenes from the show Night of the buffoons -
Shakespeare studies”. Their
play was very interesting but also very strong, just shocking.
This first experience of the group made my work for the next
hours more difficult, but also more intensive.
In the two hours long
workshop “creative psychodrama encounter in large
group”, lead by
me, we had almost 100 participants in the big conference room.
We sat in a big circle like at FEPTO meetings and we moved and
played a lot, dealing with the three roles of the congress:
King (also Queen), Wise man (also women) and Fool (was no
female connotation!, was mainly
in the sense of fool of the King) in a group
dynamical way. I
had a wonderful translator, Ilona Görög, who helped me a
lot, also as an experienced psychodramatist, as a spontaneous
“co-leader”. After
a moving role
sociometry all group participants went in one of the three
roles in small groups of three, and played spontaneuosely a
story between them. I gave only a basic situation: the country
has now some big danger and this 3 person (king, wise man and
fool) has to think and decide and find the solution.
Than every small group had to choose and send a
“representative” to a big aquarium
circle, and share (staying in the role) what happened in their
royalty, how was the decision, how worked the spontan finded
solution. It was interesting, but also very interesting just
the fact, that more than 50 percent of representatives were in
the fool role! At the end in a special sociometric way we
connected all this experience with the main title of the
congress: ethics and power. This play gave us lots of
spontaneity concerning “evidence”. An example: the group
which was interested at this point (at the beginning of
the conference) mainly for
the “power without ethics” issue, consisted mainly from the
“kings” of the previous role play. I was happy that this experience gave
the participants a
good start to the whole conference, this all stayed “in the
room” until the end. Me as leader, (who leads often big groups
for hundred people or more) had now in this 2 hours a big
excitement, a continual strong feeling of “high risk”, but
also a big joy on seeing the phantastic creativity of the
group.
From
the next morning started a series of lectures and mainly
workshops. We had also an ongoing workshop: Attila Donáth from
Hungary invited interested collegues for a playback work, with
the title “The wisdom of the clown, the force of the wise, and
the humor of the king”. In the evening we all could see the
friuts of their common work at
the Playback plenary session, they have done for us and
with us all. It gave us a real theatre experience and more: it
was our theatre.
The very good quality of the psychodrama in Romania was
visible through the workshops done by the collegues. Some
themes was in stronger connection with the 3 roles: Noblesse oblige or the
power of roles (Enikő Lázár - Éva Sarolta Butyka), The King, the Wise Man
and the Fool (Radu Vulcu), The wise man and his
shadow (Adela Mihaela Ţăranu - Andreea Dumitrache), The King and his Fool
Woman, the Queen and her Fool Man (Éva Varró, Imola
Pál-Jakab).
Others
were in connection of the main conference issue, or more wide: Beelzebub as God. The
modern forms of the God syndrome in psychodrama (Mónika
Román - Enikő Szőke), The
Travelling Journal
and the Wisdom of Synchronicity (Anca Cristina Apostol),
Does the witch really
have to die? (Graţiela Mihaela Grigorescu, Alina
Jitaru), Dark powers,
the vampires’ ethics (Mária
Orbán, Annamária Gyéresi), Chimney, sweeper in the
city without chimneys, the burden of freedom in the absence
of role (Luminita Vlas - Carmen Tamasu), Attraction, charisma and
the need to influence (Adriana Oachiş, Graţiela Sion),
Searching Values,
finding Values (Ljubomir Petrov).
The
good quality of
the conference and the every day Romanian psychodrama work was
also expressed in the lectures:
The evaluation
in the training, dilemmas and evidences (Enikő
Albert-Lőrincz), Supporting Potential
Development: Presentation of the Grundtvig European Project
(Liviu Gaja) and The
syntony of psychodramatic method with theatrical
instrumentation (Simona Simionof).
At
the end of the event some colleagues from the new generation
of psychodrama gave us a closing group experience. Than we had
a sharing on the congress and speak on our ideas for the
future. It was a
nice moment when Radu Vulcu, the president of the Romanian
Classic Psychodrama Society (ARPsiC) awarded Horatio Nil
Albini, organiser and past president of the Psychodrama
Society J.L. Moreno (SPJLM)
with the “Honorary Membership of ARPsiC”, with thanks
of the huge work done by Horatio for the whole Romanian
psychodrama movement. As visible, the cooperation is living
and creative, it can be more strong in the future, maybe also
a possible model for the national cooperation for other FEPTO
members.
Many
thanks for the presidency: Éva Varró, Sorina Bîrle, Ilona
Görög and all other collegues of the local and scientific
committees who all helped to come true this rich encounter! It was really a
scientific but also
experience- centered event.
My main global perception, as I have also told at the closing
ceremony:
Psychodrama
community
in Romania is fully grown up, can stay and move and develop
further by itself. We can really congratulate to the
developement of their psychodrama
movement, to the two cooperating associations! And we can see
them in the future, as
also for a long time at the European stage of FEPTO.
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December, 2008: Horatiu nil Albini writes: The first
Psychodrama National Conference (Theme: From
Spring to Spring) was held in Cluj, the 14th
till the 16th of November, 2008, was organized by
the two Romanian psychodrama institutes, Psychodrama
Society "J.L. Moreno" (SPJLM) and the Romanian
Classical Psychodrama Association (ARPsiC). Around 200 people, representing not
only the psychodrama community, but also the Romanian
Federation of Psychotherapy, The College of Psychologists,
Romanian Association of Clinical Hypnosis, Romanian
Association of Family Therapy, French Society of Adlerian
Psychoanalysis, Hungarian Association of Psychodrama,
attended the meeting. The
programme was divided into: two lecture sessions, a
poster exhibition, three workshop sections (conducted in
parallel in seven rooms) and three plenary workshops. The
presentations were of classical psychodrama,
psychoanalytical psychodrama, Adlerian psychodrama with
children, Balint psychodrama, organizational psychodrama,
bibliodrama and sociodrama.
We
enjoyed
the
participation of Jorg Burmeister (Switzerland),
Natacha Roldan Navarro (Spain), Manuela Maciel
(Portugal) and Hilde Gott (Germany). We are only
sorry that friends like you could not
be here, together with us. You can visit the
site of the conference at http://www.delaizvorlaizvor.ro/index.htm
During
the opening of the conference the Romanian translation of the Autobiography
of
J.L
Moreno,
MD, (first published in the Journal of Group
Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry, vol. 42, no 1) was
officially presented, under the title of "The story of my
life,". We are also translating some of the
most important articles of J.L. Moreno, the Romanian edition
will appear under the title Quintessential
Moreno.
Next
year,
the
conference
will hosted by ARPsiC. The next Romanian National
Psychodrama conference will be held in October 2009, in
Brasov, 150 km from Bucharest, its theme being: Psychodrama
in Society. From Conflict to Encounter.
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June, 2007: Preparations are active for the conference on
Moreno in July.
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November, 2006. Horatiu
Nil Albini reported the following in the Newsletter of the
Psychodrama Institut fur Europa (PIfE):The
organization has 11 active training groups for the basic
level (6 in Romanian and 5 in Hungarian) and 2 upper level
groups for assistants. New groups are under preparation,
as we have been invited to start training in Timisoara, Iasi
and Constanta.
In August 2004, in collaboration with the Bibliodrama
section of the Hungarian Association of Psychodrama,
Sarkady Kamilla and Nyáry Péter initiated the first
training group in bibliodrama, another one being currently
under preparation in Timisoara.
In the previous year, 22
theoretical seminaries and 9 special seminaries were
organized, as well as the group dynamics seminar, in
cooperation with DAGG. Supervision seminaries were also
organized for all levels. They were conducted by Hilde
Gött, Bernd Fichtenhoffer and Sarkady Kamilla. In 2007
these supervisors will be joined by Ildikó Mävers and
Eva Falström Strömberg. All legal documents related to
the basic level, upper level and bibliodrama training
were filled in and updated. For the training process of
the superior level and for the final colloquy of the
first generation of psychodramatists trained by SPJLM,
PIfE was requested to delegate supervisors from within
the organization.
Another program of training for
trainers was started, including workshops like Scenic Diagnosis conducted by Christoph
Hutter or Warm-up and Closure led by
Yaacov Naor, as well as 100 hours intensive courses,
like the one in monodrama (Psychodrama in
Monotherapy. Creativity as an Activating Therapeutical
Factor, conducted by Reinhard Krüger), or another
one on supervision, proposed by Ildikó Mävers.
The Romanian Federation of
Psychotherapy has issued the free-practice and
under-supervision psychotherapist diplomas. 22 diplomas
of SPJLM Psychodrama assistants were issued in 2005 and
19 in 2006. The procedure for applying and registering
requests for ECP (European Certificate of
Psychotherapist) is in progress.
The accreditation file for
SPJLM members has been forwarded to the College
of Psychologists.
After accreditation, we will request from the College of Psychologists and
respectively from the Medical College that
the activities organized by SPJLM be granted points for
continued education both for psychologists and for
psychiatrists.
In May 2006 we hosted the 14th
FEPTO conference, Apollon with Dionysos,
Theories in Action, with the participation of 57
representatives of organizations from 19 countries. The
conference was followed by the first FEPTO post
conference that provided a meeting place for the
students of the different psychodrama institutes in Europe. Our aim was to look into
different theoretical approaches and to form a work
group involved in supervision, comprised of
trainers and practitioners. The two events were
successful, from all points of view, including the
pragmatic one. The profit was of over 3000 Euros.
The web site of the
organization is being reorganized. The new elected web
master will monitor our internet page as well as the
information offered by other web sites, in order that
the latter should contain updated data about SPJLM.
The Executive Council met in
monthly sessions. Major issues concerning the
organization were discussed and the necessary decisions
were taken. All members were provided with the minutes
of all sessions. In order to involve as many members as
possible, the issues of the organization were discussed
both in the regular meetings of the trainers and in the
common meetings of the Council and the Professional
Committee. The Executive Council was constantly open to
guests, who frequently attend its meetings.
The organization forwarded a
request to the Town Hall, in view of obtaining a
location that could be used as an office, to host not
only the secretarial activity, but also seminaries and
workshops.
Our future plans include
proceeding to a complete electronic updating of the
financial documents. We also plan to be more active in
the scientific and research fields, to collect the
colloquy papers presented so far in a volume, to
translate basic psychodrama books required for training.
We want to inaugurate an organizational psychodrama
department, to begin a course of coaching, to increase
the number of supervisors and the offers of seminars, to
organize the first psychodrama group in the Moldavian
Republic.
We have started the first major project involving our
association together with the Romanian Association of
Classical Psychodrama: organizing in Sibiu, July 2007 the
international conference Celebrating Moreno's
Personality. We
have
in
view
the
passing from targets to the implementation of
development strategies, focused on the fields where
psychodrama is applicable, so that the organization
could diversify its activities. We would like that these
activities be promoted according to an agenda
established at least one year in advance. This will
favour a variety of offers, while the training fees will
conform both to the quality of the work and the
financial possibilities of the trainees.
Last but not least we consider
the emergence of a new generation that, in time, will
comprise as many of our colleagues currently under
training as possible
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December, 2004:Meda Padurean writes: There's a good deal of
classical (Morenian) psychodrama in Romania. A major trainer is
the Italian psychiatrist, Dr. Giovanni Boria. At present,
there are training groups in six different cities! Each summer
there is an admission workshop, and training involves about three
to four years, with ten months sessions each year. The formation
includes one didactic group (max. 12 people) and the meetings are
weekly or monthly.
When I did my studies, I was going every month
for a full week-end (from 9 AM to 10 PM). Also, each year we used
to have 2 theoretical sessions with trainees from all psychodrama
centers. The training produces several possible categories of
professional: 1. Director of Classic Psychodrama
(Psychotherapist--if you have had before a diploma in Psychology
or Psychiatry) 2. Director of Classic Psychodrama
(non-therapeutic--if you have had before a diploma in
humanistic or educative area, sociology or medicine) 3.
Professional ego - auxiliary -- Co-therapist ( after 3 year of
psychodrama school) I studied Psychodrama in Arad for
2 years, with Dr. Violeta Pecican and Dr. Mihaela Brad.
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January, 2003: Horatiu
nil Albini (email: nilspjlm@hotmail.com ) wrote in January,
2003, that The Psychodrama Society "J.L.Moreno" – the Romanian
psychodrama organization– is planning on hosting the PIfE
(Psychodrama Institut fur Europa–a coalition of training programs)
7th International Conference in Cluj, Romania. The Romanian
psychodrama association has currently 154 members and is growing
fast. 36 are graduates of the final colloquium in September 1999
and October 2001, and 12 are acknowledged by PIfE as trainers.
Early last year three psychodrama training groups were started–and
at present time there are nine groups and a tenth one is
starting in the city of Oradea. Also, we've opened website: www.psihodrama.ro
The first psychodrama conference in Romania was
in September, 1998 (also in Cluj), and the association was
organized at that time. Our group in May 2000 held a regional
conference in association with other groups on the subject of
"Sexual Abuse and Violence." In July, 2000, in Girda, we held an
International Psychodrama Summer Academy "The Way to One's Self.
Myths, Legends and Rituals." So we have been quite active. In
Romania, besides our SPJLM, there is another psychodrama
association in the town of Sibiu (The Romanian Association of
Classic Psychodrama). Both societies are members of Romanian
Federation of Psychotherapy (FRP). Since 2000 our society is an
institutional member of PIfE and 2002 a member of FEPTO as a
training organization.
Romania, May 2002:
The Psychodrama Society
"J.L.Moreno" From: nilspjlm@hotmail.com (horatiu nil
albini) We are very honored that you have contacted us and also
grateful that the first announcement of the 7th PIfE
International Conference was included on the psychodrama network.
We are very sorry that you will not come in Cluj. You have asked
for several information about our society. The first attachment
includes the history of SPJLM and the second our curriculum vitae
as presented at the last FEPTO meeting at Sofia.The association
has currently 135 members, 36 are graduates of the final
colloquium in September 1999 and October 2001, and 12 are
acknowledged by PIfE as trainers. In February 2000 three
psychodrama training groups have been started led by SPJLM
trainers, and their number is now eight, including 121 students in
the first level. In september 1998 in Cluj the first
Romanian Conference of Psychodrama named "Conflicts -
Solving Drama by Psychodrama" was organized. In May 2000 in
Cluj in co-operation of the Artemis Program an East-European
national and regional conference "Sexual Abuse and Violence"
was held and in July 2000 in
Girda took place the International Psychodrama Summer Academy "The
Way to One's Self. Myths, Legends and Rituals".
Beside SPJLM is another psychodrama association in Sibiu (The
Romanian Association of Classic Psychodrama). Unfortunately
we have no contacts although we tried several times to reach
them. Both societies are members of Romanian Federation of
Psychotherapy (FRP). Since 2000 our society is an
institutional member of PIfE and 2002 a member of FEPTO as a
training organization.
About myself: I am living in Cluj, I am a
psychiatrist (nobody is perfect) and a psychodrama
therapist. So I am not a doctor and never will become a
professor. Hence if you wish Horatiu will be enough. If there are
any other questions, tell me so (by the way it is Romania and not
Rumania). My very best
wishes Horatiu
In November,
2000, Zerka T. Moreno was in Bucharest to celebrate 111
years from the birth of Dr. J. L. Moreno.
Russia:
November 2013, sent by Evgeny
Sheronov : Since 2011 the seminars in
Humanistic Psychodrama took place in the International Center of
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the institute of
pedagogic and psychology of the State Nekrassov University of
Kostroma (www.iccpp.org).
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Above: Heinz-Werner Gessman in middle,
workshop for psychotherapists in Moscow, Fall, 2013.
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Above: Heinz-Werner Gessman, instructor,
workshop on Humanistic Psychodrama, for counselors in
Smolensk, Russia, Fall, 2013.
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The trainer
of these seminars is the founder of this school of psychodrama Prof. Prof. h.c. Dr.
Hans-Werner Gessmann. There are both demonstrational seminars
and long time educational programs, whose result is the
qualification assignment of the “Psychodrama-Assistant”,
“Psychodrama-Therapist” and “Psychodrama-Master-Therapist”. The
Center gives the opportunity of supervision and issues
certificates of the International
Academy of extramural
courses and further training (Germany,
Duisburg).
Prof. Gessmann also leads seminars in Humanistic Psychodrama in
the context of educational projects of the State Psychological
and Pedagogic University of Moscow and the State University of
Smolensk. In 2013 the ICCPP started to organize Russian
educational groups to study Humanistic Psychodrama in the
Psychotherapeutic Institute Bergerhausen (Germany)
(www.pib-zentrum.de).
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May, 2012: Ekaterina Mihailova writes: The Federation of
Psychodrama Training Institutes in Russia (FPTIR) represents
the professional community of Russian psychodrama
practitioners. We are now 20 years old! The first group of
the International Psychodrama Training project headed by
Goran Hogberg was started in spring of 1989: We consider
that to be the date of birth of the Russian psychodrama
school. Since then we have been taught and trained by
brilliant professionals – Goran Högberg, Ella-May Shearon,
Greta Leutz, Rene Marineau, Jorg Burmeister, Evie
Lotze, Sue Barnum, Milton Hawkins, Marcia Karp, Paul Holmes,
David Kipper, James Sacks, Monika Zuretti, Sue Daniel,
Natalia Novitski, Eva Falshtrom, Klaudia Bachman-Gross,
Jacob Muller, Ann Ancelin Schutzenberger and many
others were among them. We established the first national
psychodrama training programs in the 1990s.
By 2000 long-term training programs in Moscow and many
cities of the former Soviet Union have been maintained by
the 4 non-governmental Institutes listed in English
translation along with their guiding directors: (1)
Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama ( Nifont Dolgopolov);
(2) Institute of Group and Family Psychotherapy (Elena
Lopukhina); (3) Institute of Group Psychotherapy and
Social Projects (Ekaterina Mikhailova); and (4)
Institute of Psychodrama and Role Training (Victor Semenov).
In July, 2007, the leaders of the above-listed psychodrama
training programs made a decision to establish the
Federation (FPTIR). The experience and the formats of
cooperation of different training organizations is a part of
the professional world tradition – like the work of FEPTO in
Europe (Nifont Dolgopolov and Elena Lopukhina are among the
FEPTO co-founders). FPTIR is established to support the
world psychodrama tradition, to maintain the international
qualification standards and to develop psychodrama in
Russia. We made a step to integration of our Institutes’
approaches to the educational and training processes. We
established our Federation:
- to support the development of the psychodrama movement in
Russia and to form its strategies;
- to know, to understand and to integrate different schools
and approaches to psychodrama, to share ideas and
experiences;
- to maintain communication with the International
community;
- to work together on the certification standards and
procedures;
- to promote psychodrama in different fields of professional
practice as well as in the social contexts;
- to confirm the values of constructive professional
cooperation by our commitment.
Our first joint project put into life was the unique
training program for psychodrama trainers (16 professionals
already engaged in the work of 4 Institutes (February 2008 –
February 2009)). By now they are certified to be the
FPTIR trainers. We are working on the FPTIR web-site
and many other projects, including organizing workshops and
writing books and articles. We also promote collaboration
with professionals in other fields. The four of us hope to
greet new ideas and to make them work both for the national
professional community and the world integration process.
The 7th Moscow Psychodrama Conference will be next month,
June 2012, and continues the journey of psychodrama in
Russia.
Later this month, June 2012, we are running the Tenth X
Moscow Psychodrama Conference, where we will offer 60 workshops and
expect about 400
participants.
We hope to promote more exchanges with the world community.
I (Ekaterina Mikhailova, in Moscow) am one of those who take
part in the international conferences - Rome 2009; Krakow
(Poland) in 2011; Summer Academy in Granada 2010 and 2012.
Now I'm looking forward to Cartagena in July; Finally, in
August, 2012, in Tallinn, Estonia, at the 7th Baltic Moreno
Conference "People's Stories", I'll run a workshop there.
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December,
2008: Marcia Karp <mkarp11444@aol.com> writes: Last
week I was in Moscow doing a yearly training group. We had
nineteen participants in a three-day training group. This
suggests a very positive response, because finances are very
tight in Russia nowadays. Many patients cannot afford to attend
their therapy appointments, while some are willing to pay for
therapy instead of paying for food or heat! (There’s a similar
problem economically in England.) In May I go back to do a
therapy group for trainers as they get precious little chance to
be protagonist. In April, 2009, I go to Kazakhstan where I've
never been. Nifont Dologopov of Moscow introduced psychodrama
there and they have an active community.
Further adventures in Ukraine.
Elena Abelskaya <abelskaya@mail.ru> wrote
to note that an international conference on psychodrama and
sociometry was held in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, May 5-7, 2005, and
they had guests from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
Also, in Moscow, 10-12 June, they had a psychodrama seminar
by led by Jacob Muller of the Moreno Institute in Germany.
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-
-
Ekaterina Mikhailova <lola@igisp.ru> writes in
2005: Greta Leutz has certified the last Moscow training
group - the international project started in 90's, 3 groups
finished long ago, and now this one. We are going to run the
third Moscow conference (April 8-10). About 25 workshops,
about 200 participants. When it is over, I'll send a short
report.Ekaterina Mikhailova <lola@igisp.ru>
writes: 1. Re: - Greta Leutz has certified
the last Moscow training group - the international project
started in 90's, 3 groups finished long ago, and now this
one.
2.
We
are
grateful:
the professional community (and Greta, first of all)
continued to be involved even when "all this Russian stuff"
went out of fashion.
3.
A dozen of internationally certified psychodramatists joined
us.
4.
We
are
going
to run the third Moscow conference (April 8-10). About 25
workshops, about 200 participants.
Yekaterinburg, Russia, October,
2004: Elena Abelskaya <abelskaya@mail.ru> writes:
Starting in 1996 Mrs. Lena Lopouhina of the Institute of
Psychodrama and Role Training in Moscow came here to
Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains a few hundred miles East of
Moscow, and trained two groups of psychologists and
psychotherapists. Since then, she has graduated approximately 30
students! Now there are 5 or 6 of these graduates who are
leading psychodrama groups in our city. More recently, we
established our own Ural Institute of Psychodrama, and this last
springtime we graduated our first four students following a
three-year cycle of education. (Our foundation is the only
"legal" one for training psychodrama in Yekaterinburg.)
Since I'm a lecturer
at Psychological Department of The Ural State University I know
that quite a few students-psychologists in our city are
interested in further specialization on psychodrama.
So that we plan to increase our staff and the number of students
soon. I hope that in course of time we shall be able to enter
FEPTO.
We haven't done any census
of the number of psychodramatists in our region. There is also
another psychodrama group, The Russian Psychodrama Association,
that also exists here but I don't know how many members they
have. The Association hasn't its representation in our
city.
For the last four years,
our country has held all-Russian conferences on psychodrama in
the cities of Moscow or Rostov-on-Don. Last February, 2004,
about 250 people attended the conference in Moscow. You already
know that a psychodrama journal titled (English translation:
"Psychodrama and modern psychotherapy) began to be published in
Kiev, Ukraine, starting around 2002. We would like more
reading materials to translate into Russian.
Write or send us your materials! Address: Ural
Institute of Psychodrama; Russia, 620026,
Yekaterinburg; K. Marks st., house 8, of. 314.
May, 2001: Vladimir
Romek, of the Don Society of Psychodrama
<moreno@newmail.ru> writes: This coming September 14-19,
2001, we are hosting an International Congress of Psychodrama,
Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy, with psychodramatists
from Russia, Georgia, Estonia, France, Germany,--and you
are invited, too! The conference is sponsored also by the
South-Russian Institute of Humanities, here in Rostov-on-Don, in
the land of the ancient Scythians. There is no fee for
attending the conference! It's free. Also, for those who
present, we will offer free accommodations and meals!
(Unfortunately, we cannot afford to pay for travel.) We will
also be able to provide translation from and to English and
German. For more information, please contact me at the
previously mentioned email address or:
romek@psychology.ru
August, 1999: Leonid Kroll, in Russia, (email:
kroll@aha.ru) writes recently: We have continued to work on
developing our method in spite of our present circumstances.
Katya Mikchailova does a lot of client group work (women`s
groups, seminars on family history, personal growth groups
etc), and has several training programs out of Moscow. Elena
Lopukchina trains a lot of professionals. Nifont Dolgopolov
works with a combination of gestalt and psychodrama. Foreign
trainers are not as available as they used to be. There is a
group (Moscow-IV, a German section of the project) that
still has no certification. They are waiting for their
German trainer and feel very uncertain. Today
psychodrama is in demand in the field of chemical
dependencies` treatment. We are publishing books on group
psychotherapy where psychodrama has it`s proper place
(usually Katya writes the chapters). We also offer
long-standing training programs on role play, psychodrama
and group psychotherapy. In brief, psychodrama in Russia
gets riper, more engaged in real client work and more
self-sufficient. We`ll keep in touch with more news IGISP
webpages : http://www.igisp-klass.aha.ru
Scandinavia (Finland, Norway, Denmark, etc.: See Baltic:)
Serbia: -- See Yugoslavia.
Spain:
July, 2010: Eduardo
Fernandez-Cruz writes: July, 2010: Teodoro Herranz and his
Escuela de Psicoterapia y Psicodrama (that I still form part of
it) has now organized an Association called Asociacion para el
estudio de la psicoterapia y el psicodrama. This association has
its goal to promote the study and investigation of the clinical
practice of psychotherapy and psychodrama. (Click
here
for
more
information) I am now currently working at the Saint
Louis University- Madrid Campus (in Spain) as a professor and also
I collaborate at their Counseling Center.
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May, 2009:
| To the right is a group
photo (withJaime Rojas-Bermudez in the middle with the
white beard) of the12th ASSG (http://www.assg.org/)
meeting.There is a great spirit in this ASSG group in
Sevilla. You may remember that it was Jaime that broke
into the way of framing Psychodrama in Neuropsychological
terms. (See his "Teoria Y
Tecnica Psicodramaticas", published by
Paidos Ibericos in 1997.) |
|
May, 2008: Goyo Armańanzas, vice-president of the AEP
reports on the 23rd National meeting of Spanish Association of
psychodrama (AEP), held in connection with the 1st International
Conference on Regulation and Mediation of Conflicts, Granada, May
23-25, 2008: The AEP (Spanish Association of Psychodrama ; www.aep.org) and the University of
Granada organized the first international conference on the
mediation of conflicts together. The subtitle "Who will survive?:
the application of the Psicodrama in the Society of today.”
The 4 main topics of the conference embarked: Community work and
Therapy; Mediation of Conflicts in Society; Collective trauma and
post-war situations and Ethics of the Leadership in Companies and
Organizations. The inaugural conference on Mediation of
International Conflicts was imparted by Alfredo Witchi, former
commissary of the UN. 140 participants came together, representing
14 different nationalities. In addition to the many contributions
one highlight was the introduction of the large Group format,
little known until now in these encounters. Also, Playback Theatre
was used as the closure technique for this conference.
In another special session
("The conference goes on the street") 3 experts of 3 different
countries gathered 100 people in a public square demonstrating
techniques of playback and spontaneous theatre improvisations Many
proposals focused the mediation of conflicts in educational and
community contexts, with topics like immigration, inclusion of
marginalized groups or gender sensitivity work through the Theatre
of the Oppressed techniques (Nicaragua, Venezuela and Brazil).
Finally it is worthwhile to mention a pioneer work on the topic of
collective trauma and the sequels of wartime conflicts centred in
the Spanish Civil War sequels. Thanks to Natacha Roldan,
Head Organizing Committee Jorge Burmeister, Head Scientific
Program Committee. -- Dr. Gregorio Armańanzas Ros (C/Esquíroz 4
1şB 31007 Pamplona (Navarra) Espańa
Telf: 34 948 170614 Fax: 34 948 276301) E-mail: gar@gogestion.com
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Summer, 2007: Jorge Burmeister <bulmonte21@bluewin.ch>
describes the forthcoming 8th International Summer Academy
Granada–a program for psychodrama, group work and group
psychotherapy. This program is especially dedicated to
transcultural group competence and peace work establishing a space
of dialogue between some of the most recognized applied group
models: psychodrama, group analysis and group dynamics and
colleagues from involved communities: e.g. Israel and Palestine.
In the frame of truly international groups experts and students
from our field will find the opportunity to work with at least six
different conductors of the same model in the same group. Morning
lectures and the process of the experience in a large
group setting every evening will frame the experiential work.
We offer special fees for colleagues from
countries with economic hardship and also grants for students as
we are interested to allow after all also younger colleagues and
colleagues from those countries their participation. Thus we try
to convey the original idea of J.L. Moreno to overcome at least
partly the exclusion by social or economic dysbalance/
discrimination.
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Spain
(2005): Dr. Roberto de Inocencio
<rdinocencio@mundivia.es> writes: I am currently
running three training groups. The program covers
three hundred hours and one of the groups is finishing its
training this coming June. The other two groups are just
beginning this year. Our program
has the approval of FEPTO and the Spanish Association of
Psychodrama. We also run
introductory seminars of 12 hours once a year as a warm-up
towards a more formal training. At present there are around
50 trainees in the different groups. At the last meeting of
the Asociacion Espanola de Psicodrama we had about 200
participants. Most of them are trainers and trainees. French
psychoanalytic psychodrama is not used much here–and if so,
probably in Catalonia. Most of us are Morenians and some are
influenced by the Argentinian psychodramatists that came in
the 1980s (emigrants from the dictatorship of the colonels
there at that time. I use "Acting In "as one of the main texts in my
work. I also use Eva Leveton's and Elizabeth White's books.
I have around 40 students interested in getting a copy of
Acting In and Foundations of Psychodrama in Spanish
translation.
The annual meeting of the
Sociedad Espanola de Psicoterapia y Tecnicas de Grupo on May
19 to 22 will take place in Cullera, a village on the
Mediterranean sea, near Valencia, in Spain. The issue is
about emptiness, encounters and farewells. Language will be
spanish. You can find information in the
page www.septg.org
Eduardo Fernandez-Cruz Sarrate
<efcs@vodafone.es> writes: Announcing a new book:
Clinical Psychodrama. Our web page is: www.psicoterapiaypsicodrama.com
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Spain,
Fall, 2004: Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Cruz
<efcs@vodafone.es> announces a newly published anthology! In
Fall, 2004, this book is of course in Spanish. (For this column,
Dr. Fernandez-Cruz graciously translated the titles of the book
and chapters.)
Herranz, Teodoro. (Editor). (2004). Clinical
Psychodrama, Theory and Techniques (Psicodrama clinico, Teoria y
Tecnica). Madrid, Spain: Biblioteca "Oskar Pfister" and Ediciones
Ciencias sociales. Number of pages 239. Contents: Part 1: Theory.
1. Sergio Perazzo "What theory". 2. T. Herranz "Psychodrama
bipersonal".
3. Jose Fonseca "New approaches in psychodrama".
Part 2. Techniques.
Chap. 4, T. Herranz "Psychodrama therapy with couples". 5. Maria
Angeles Ejido, "Psychodrama Techniques". 6. T. Herranz, Vega
Candelas, R. Oria "Psychodrama with Children".
Part 3. Clinical Chap.
7. T. Herranz "Psychodrama in narcissism and borderline
disorder". 8. Marisol Filgueira and Carlos Castro
"Depression and psychodrama". 9. Maria Angeles Ejido
"Psychosomatics and psychodrama". 10. Antonio Pintado " Psychosis
and psychodrama".
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Around December, 2003, Marisol Filgueira Bouza
<marisol.filgueira@wanadoo.es> wrote: We have more than 100
members at the moment in the AEP -Asociación Espańola de
Psicodrama- from many different theoretical approaches (classical,
triadic, systemic, transpersonal, cognitive-analytical...). Also,
there are a number of psychodramatists who don't belong to our
association, mainly from the analytical approach, and some of
those have their own associations. There must be about 15 to 20
certified private schools in the country offering psychodrama
training--private schools of psychotherapy whose trainers are
officially certified, and most do some kind of psychodrama
training, but not all of them are credited by the AEP (some belong
to other different associations of psychotherapy). In each school
you can usually find 1 to 4 trainers, sometimes more. But there
are also many professionals who work in public institutions and do
psychodrama training or therapy on demand. So Moreno's methods are
widely practiced. The AEP publishes a quarterly journal, "La Hoja
de Psicodrama. (Email to: hoja-psicodrama@terra.es), that includes
the papers presented at our annual 3-day meetings. The list of the
AEP's publications is in my paper; a more extensive bibliography
on Spanish psychodrama is in J.A. Espina's book. We also organize
2-days lasting workshops once a year or as frequently as possible,
directed by the AEP's members or by guests from abroad.
The Spanish Psychodrama Association
and the Commission of International Relationsheld their 19th
Annual Meeting in Salamanca, Spain on November 14-16, 2003.
Coordinated by Dr. Ernesto Fonseca- Fabregas or the Coordinator,
Ana M Fernundez
Espinosa
C/ Zafiro n: 1 37185-Villamayor de Armuea
Telefono 647 479 475 e-mail:
reunaepsala@hotmail.com Or see:
www.aepsicodrama.com
In December, 2003,
Marisol Souza Filgueira reported on this 19th Meeting of the
Spanish Psychodrama Association (A.E.P.), Theme:
'Psychodrama and cultural diversity'. 290 people attended (140
were students from the University - the conference had been
concerted as an special course). It lasted 20 hours. There were 11
panels of lectures and oral presentations, each including four
reporters on average. Among them, the special contributions of
Jorg Burmeister and Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger. 18 workshops were
held, including the official Closure of the event, following the
classic psychodrama session. Boards for the exhibition of posters
were avaliable: three posters of training schools and four posters
of psychodrama applications were presented. A preliminary archive
of the Association was exhibited, with photos, historical
information and previous publications. An expositor contained
books, programs, brochures... belonging to psychodrama schools or
individual professionals. A local author, who designed the
conference's advertisement, exposed his photographs. Books of
previous meetings of the Association were sold. Anne Ancelin Sch
tzenberger distributed some issues of her last book. Jose
Antonio Espina Barrio gave information to buy a videotape of J.L.
Moreno. A Commitee for the coordination among the A.E.P. and
Psychodrama Trainers, and a Commitee for Foreign Relationships
were founded. The onset of conversations between the
representatives of the A.E.P. and the University of Salamanca was
agreed in order to establish permanent training co-operation. The
A.E.P.'s Excutive Board, Assembly of Members, and the Commitee of
Trainers met convoked by the current President Antonio Pintado
Calvo. There were ludic and cultural activities, like the
coffee-breaks with drama plays, a Music-Poetic walking around the
monumental town and the gala dinner. In press, the edition of a
book with the contents of the conference, the A.E.P.'s archive,
and unpublished papers from previous meetings compiled by Marisol
Filgueira Bouza. The General Coordinator was Ana Ma Fernández
Espinosa and the Scientific Coordinator was Ana Imańa Martinez..
The next conference
will be in November, 2004, in Pamplona, where they run the bulls.
He also reminds the readers of the big Ibero-American Psychodrama
Conference, to be held in Mexico
City, in May 4-7, 2005. Its web page is:
http://www.psicodrama2005.com
Contact Jaime Winkler there at the
Escuela Mexicana de Psicodrama y Sociometria. The other
institutions in charge are the Brasilian Federation of
Psychodrama, the Spanish asociation of psychodrama, the
Argentinian society of psychodrama and the Portuguese Society of
Psychodrama . I don't think its too late to submit papers.
Also: The next Ibero-American Psychodrama Conference will be
held May of 2007 in the lovely city of La Coruna, Spain, and
the one after that, May 2009, will be in Quito, Ecuador
Switzerland
November 2009: Roger Schaller (SZB Bachtelen)" <roger.schaller@bachtelen.ch>
reported
that
there
are
134 members in the association Pychodrama Helvetia PDH. Of these
134 there are 65 who practice in psychotherapy - the
other are working as trainers, teachers, consultants etc. Nearly
all of this 134 members are from the German part of Switzerland
(only 10 members are from the French part (e.g., Norbert Apter -
he is the director ao a psychodrama-institute in geneva). In the
french part there are also psychoanalytic-psychodrama-directors:
but they consider themselves more belonging to psychoanalyse than
topsychodrama. I am member of the PDH comittee and there I am
responsible for psychotherapy. -- Roger
Schaller Burgerweg 7, CH-2532
Magglingen, Tel. 004132 3223194 schaller@roleplay.ch
www.roleplay.ch
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March, 2006: Geneva: "Norbert
Apter" <norbert.apter@odef.ch> writes: In 2005, a
goodly number of psychodramatists from both the German- and the
French-speaking parts of Switzerland worked for several
years assembling the data and collaborated for 8 months to build
an application file–submitted in January, 06, to have psychodrama
recognized in our country as a complete method of
psychotherapy. If accepted, trainees in psychodrama would
end up being recognized as "Psychologist spécialized in
psychotherapy through psychodrama. We recently submitted this
application. Our goals included the elaboration of a training
programm that suits both cultures as well as fulfilling the
requirements of two Swiss associations of psychology or
psychotherapy, one European, FEPTO and the Swiss Medical
Federation (FMH). Credit for the work on this application should
be given to Roger Schaller, Helena Brem, Suzanne Roth, Ingrid
Sturm, Norbert Apter, and Jutta Fürst. The file (in German) is
available from: helenabrem@datazug.ch
The German-speaking region is definitely the largest part of
Switzerland. In the last 20 years, more than a hundred
professionals call themselves (classical) psychodramatists
and are members of PDH (Psychodrama Helvetia). In the smaller
French-speaking part of Switzerland, before 2001, there were at
the most eight psychodramatists (including me), only one (myself)
had completed a full training in psychodrama. Since then, I have
trained 12 psychodramatists and am training 11 others. We use the
method in a variety of contexts and with a wide range of
populations.
Although a number
of psychoanalysts use psychodrama in their practice but they
do not consider psychodrama to be a full method. Even if they call
themselves psychoanalytical psychodramatists, they consider their
main allegiance is to psychoanalysis. Moreover, they use the
adaptations of the method by Lebovici and others that began in the
later 1950s.
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(Nov. 2002): Jorge Burmeister <bulmonte21@bluewin.ch>
in
Switzerland
writes:
I am still working a lot on international
level. The international group conference in Granada will take
place in june 2003 for the fourth time which I organize including
psychodrama (e.g. Jose Fonseca, Maurizio Gasseau, Jose Antonio
Espina Barrios, Barbara Legeler, Helmut Haselbacher) as one of the
key approaches. See: www.granada-academy.org
Beside this activity I will coordinate the meeting of the spanish
psychodrama association in two weeks in Madrid, I am working a lot
in Italy, Turkey and Finland. I am going to publish several
articles and at least one book in the next months mainly on the
clinical application of Psychodrama but also on, for example, the
diverse action-oriented approaches in large group work. I am still
chairman of the German association of group psychotherapy and
group dynamic (DAGG) which includes not only Psychodrama but also
Group analysis and other group approaches . Last but not least I
am also active in the board of directors of the IAGP being one of
the two co-editors of the Forum and chairperson of the committee
of continuing education and training. In behalf of this function I
would warmly welcome any contribution of yours - an original
abstract - on any subject of psychodrama/group psychotherapy you
want to share with our international group community.
February, 2004:
susanne.kunz@freesurf.ch (Susanne Kunz) announces a new website
for psychodrama there: www.pdh.ch
October, 1999: Elisabeth
Pfaefflin <pfaefflin@bluewin.ch> writes: Among the
German-speaking trainers, I estimate five or six– possibly some
others in the French and Italian speaking parts of the
country. Our own training group has trained about 90 people
through about 360 hours, and most of these then integrate
psychodramatic techniques into a wide range of work situations.
About 15 went further to certify as Psychodrama Practitioners or
Trainers. There is a national psychodrama organization, PDH
(Psychodrama Helvetia). An interesting application involves the
use of psychodrama and History– since 1985–placing personal
history in its broader historical context.
Taiwan:
Chi-Chu Chou writes: Here is the
psychodrama team at Chang-Hua Hospital:
from left: Chu-Ya Hsieh (Clinical Psychologist), Tzu-jung Lee
(Clinical Psychologist), Sun-Yuan Liang (Psychiatrist,
Deputy Director of the Department of Psychiatry. He is not
a psychodrma director, but strongly supports the
psychodrama work at the department), Adam
Chi-Chu Chou, Ph.D., CP, PAT, (with jacket,
trainer and supervisor of the team), Su-Feng Chiou (Clinical Psychologist), Chia-Jung Jao (Clinical
Psychologist).
In addition, here are some
others:
Others:
the two women from the right
of the photo are Chia-Mei Cheng (Clinical Psychologist) and Yu-Chien Tsai
(Occupational Therapist), and the man on the
right photo:, Tsung-Chi Su (Counseling
Psychologist)
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April 2013: Nien-Hwa Lai,
Ph.D., TEP, writes: Psychodrama was born in Taiwan
in the hands of a psychiatric doctor, Chen Chu-Chang. In 1974,
after receiving the original copy of Acting-in (Blatner,
1973), he organized a study club with his colleagues at National
Taiwan Univeristy Hospital. They performed uninterrupted weekly
discussion and action practice for more than five years and laid
a solid foundation of psychodrama in Taiwan for not only
psychiatric therapy, but also school education, community
services, enterprise training and correctional
institutes. What also promoted the popular practice of
psychodrama in Taiwan is the contribution of many foreign
psychodramatists since the 1990s, in particular the long-term
devotion of certified TEPs Gong Shu, Dorothy and Mort Satten,
Kate Hudgins, as well as Pamela and Rory Remer. Zerka Moreno
also visited Taiwan twice, respectively in 1996 and 2000. Their
visits charged Taiwanese psychodrama with the authenticity
passed on from J. L. Moreno. It is also under their inspiration
that many local psychodramatists took part in ABEPSGP exams. As
of May 2013, ABEPSGP has certified four TEPs, three PATs and
five CP from Taiwan. There is also a Taiwanese director
certified by Moreno Institut Stuttgart in Germany. Among them
are several working in higher education, and thus introducing
psychodrama to college and graduate curricula. Their academic
roles also granted rigorous research work, producing more than a
dozen dissertations and theses over the past decade.
In 2010, this group of “new
generation” Taiwanese psychodramatists further united our
psychodrama community by founding Taiwan Association of
Psychodrama to lead the comprehensive program of psychodrama
training and development in Taiwan. The Association currently
has about 80 registered members and more than 300 regular
workshop participants. The Association also certifies
trainers, directors as well as action group leaders
and have now awarded more than 20 certified trainers and
directors. Many Taiwanese psychodrama trainers also
started offering training and education in China, Malaysia,
Singapore and Japan, promoting psychodrama in other Asian
communities with our experiences in Taiwan. For more
details, please refer to my article about recent developments
in Tiawan to be published in this year's issue of the Journal
of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama and Sociometry.
October, 2010: Nien-Hwa Lai,
Ph.D., T.E.P., an Associate Professor in the Department of
Psychology and Counseling at the National Taipei University
of Education in Taipei, 106 Taiwan writes: Our Taiwan
Association of Psychodrama was founded on March 27th, 2010,
during a two-day conference in Tainan at the witness of 112
attendants. There are 65 members now, most of whom are
professionals including psychiatrists, professors, clinical
and counseling psychologists, social workers, nurses, school
teachers, and graduate students.
Psychodrama was first introduced to the
Taiwanese society 36 years ago. In 1974, Dr. Ju-chung Chen,
a psychiatrist, and his fellows in National Taiwan
University Hospital read Acting-in by Adam Blanter and,
after some exercises, organized psychodrama workshops for
their patients in the Department of Psychiatry. Ever since,
psychodrama has been promoted by many psychodramatists for a
diverse spectrum of people in various healthcare systems,
communities, schools, prisons, homes and corporations.
Thanks to the great support from
many outstanding psychodrama trainers who continuously
offered excellent training programs and valuable advice.
These people include Gong Shu, a pioneer Chinese American
TEP, Kung Ning-Shing, Dorothy Satten and Mort Satten, Kate
Hudgins, Rory Remer and Pamela Remer. Additionally, our eyes
have been broadened with the visits of psychodrama trainers
from around the world, including Zerka Moreno, Marcia Karp,
Milton, Maryann (Mimi) Cox, John Nolte, David Kipper, Joseph
Moreno, Charmaine McVea, Monica Zuretti, and Glenn
Sammis..Currently in Taiwan, we have one TEP certified by
the American Board of Examiners, and six
Practitioners-almost-trainers. (There is also one
psychodrama director certified by Moreno Institute Stuttgart
of Germany.) A certification system for Taiwan Association
of Psychodrama is now under development, in an effort to
establish local recognition with international compatibility
for the exchange and communication of psychodrama beyond
geographical confines.
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2005 : (See IAGP above- Pacific Rim Conference,
Sept. 2005) 7th Pacific Rim Regional Congress of Group
Psychotherapy (combined with the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Psychotherapy) was held in
Taipei, Taiwan, 24th-28th September, 2005 Theme:
Containment with Courage in a Century of Challenges. This
conference addresses the striking challenges in the
aftermath of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, the Iraq war, the
outbreak of SARS and the tsunami disaster. The calamities
that have had an enormous impact on our lives. This congress
will present a remarkable opportunity for dialogue and
working together.
Taiwan (December 2004):
Kate Hudgins reports from her visits from Taiwan that she and
her team have visited five times, doing workshops and building
increasing interest in the Therapeutic Spiral Method with
clinicians there. Her recent books, have recently been
translated into Mandarin Chinese by Chen Shin-Jaw, M.D. One,
co-written with Peter Kellermann, Trauma and Psychodrama (2000),
is still in preparation, and the second, more recent one, just
by M. K. Hudgins, titled "Experiential Treatment of PTSD:
The Therapeutic Spiral Model, will be published in the late
Fall. Plans are afoot for several more training sessions in
2005!
August, 2000: Dr.
Chi-Chu Chou <ccchou@ms2.hinet.net> writes: We invite
teachers on various aspects of counseling (other than
psychodrama, also), and Dorothy and Mort Satten have been coming
regularly for a few years. We have an ongoing training group
of 35 students--many teachers and graduate students from
teachers' colleges–in a closed two-year program. A second
training group with 31 members has been organized, also a
two-year closed group. Shu Gong (from St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
also has been coming to our country twice a year, but working
with other groups. Overall, in our country, a few people have
accumulated over 300 hours of training-- some even with over 500
hours!
For the Satten's two year program we've
divided group members into four study groups. One study group
with 13 trainees is in Taichung, near the center of Taiwan;
there are two groups in Taipei of smaler size, and a small group
of three students in Kaoshing. People in each study
group meets once a month, practing psychodrama and sharing
the readings. We all read Foundations of Psychodrama and
Acting-In, the latter having been translated into Chinese.
August 1999:
Agnes Wu writes: Psychodrama was first used here in 1971. Now
nine hospitals use psychodrama as part of group therapy. There
is a local section of the International Association for Group
Psychotherapy which met in Taipei and considered ways to promote
psychodrama training and appropriate supervision. Ms Wu’s
email: t09001@cc.ntnu.edu.tw
Turkey:
Istanbul, January 2011: Deniz Altinay of the Istanbul
Psychodrama Institute has news of several events. This year 15
psychodramatists and 20 co-psychodramatists have
graduated from our program as active directors during the Marcia
Karp summer workshop in July 2010. Totally 66 psychodramatists and
104 co- therapist are actively integrating psychodrama in our
institute. We are planning our coming Summer Conference with Paul
Holmes, perhaps: It will be around July 2011..As a first step we
have translated into Turkish translation of Paul Holmes’ book.
(1992). The Inner World
Outside: Object Relations Theory and Psychodrama and will
soon be published in Turkiye with help of I.P.I.. We expect that
this will add even more energy for our psychodrama community as
well as building bridges to our colleagues in psychoanalysis..
December, 2010: The Istanbul Psychodrama Institute
(IPI) was accepted as an organizational member for The European
Association for Psychotherapy – EAP---, which means our training program is approved by this
organizations. Thus, for example, our students can work as a
psychotherapist in Europe, and it validates the professional
standing of our institute. Deniz Altinay
wrote
last
year that the IPI and International Zerka Moreno
Institute was founded by Deniz Altinay, and Nese Karabekir Ezgin
in 1996. IPI is a member of ASGPP, FEPTO and EAP. Throughout those
years, psychologists and psychological counselors have been
trained as psychodrama group therapist and lots of them are still
in training process in different levels. We have created a
psychodrama library which has included the dissertations written
by our graduates, addressing a range of contemporary issues. A
sample of these thesis are published as a book, a second one is on
the way. The Institude training program involves different
compulsory and elective seminars on psychodrama with very novel
subjects. Our institute has actual departments for Group &
Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy, Couple & Marriage
Therapy, Individual Psychodrama, Child Psychodrama, Adolesent
Psychodrama; Psychodrama in Education and with Business
(Companies); Psychodrama in Pregnancy; Mother & Baby
Psychodrama; a Testing Unit; and our Istanbul Playback Theatre.
Over the last ten years we have offered annual
summer (late July) workshops featuring guest trainers, Zerka
Moreno, David Kipper, Marcia Karp, Anna Chesner, Chris Farmer,
Monica Zuretti, Sue Daniel, Jacquie Dubbs-Siroka, Marisol Bouza
Filgueira, Jacob Gershoni, Laila Kjellstrom, Eva Leveton, Louise
Lipman, Joseph Moreno, Christina Hagelthorn, Sue Jennings, Peter
Felix Kellermann, Yacov Naor, Elaine Sachnoff, Eberhard
Scheiffele, Gong Shu, Bob Siroka, Ron Wiener, Paul Wilkins, Judith
Tezsary, Liz White and Jeanne Burger.
We have also developed our Istanbul Playback
Theatre Company is established in 1999 by Deniz Altinay, since
then performed at major theatres every month. Our Institude
Publications include the following books by Deniz Altinay: Psychodrama:
400 Warm-Up Games, Basic Techniques; Handbook of
Psychodrama & Group Psychotherapy , 2000; Playback
Theatre
and
Psychodrama Applications in Traditional Theater ( 2001). Child
Psychodrama, 2007. And edited anthology: Selected Issues
in Pyschodrama, 2004, Aura Publishing Company. For further
information please visit IPI web page www.istpsikodrama.com.tr
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2008: Historical Notes: In 1972, Dr. Özbek met Dr. Grete Leutz
in Lübeck during a Psychotherapies Meeting. He was
working in Germany
as a professor of psychiatry. He started his own
training with Dr. Leutz in Moreno Überlingen
Institute. Coming back to Turkey, Ankara University, Dr. Özbek
invited Dr. Leutz to Turkey
for a couple of times for workshops and seminars.
In 1984 the nucleus of the first systematic
training for psychodramatic-sociometric group
psychotherapies started in Ankara. This
was also the start of the first systematic psychotherapy training
in Turkey.
Meanwhile the Group Psychotherapies Association
was formed in 1974 in
and congresses were being organized. From 1984 on,
these congresses are held in Bergama,
in the ancient Asclepion each year with the
participation of international psychodramatists
and group psychotherapists. In 1986 Dr. Özbek
enlarged the training program and training groups
were formed also in Istanbul, Izmir
and Bursa.
With the support and contributions of Überlingen
Moreno Institute’s trainers he managed to
continue the difficult task of training in so
many places. Dr. Leutz, Dr. Franzke, Dr.
Gerstenberg, Dr. Gneist were visitor trainers. Later Dr. Burmeister, Dr. Pinter, G.
Ziegler, Dr. Gasseau, J.
Moreno were added to the list. The certification
of first psychodramatists of the Institute was made with contributions from the
trainers of Überlingen Moreno Institute. First
jury examination started in 1993.
Dr. Özbek died in June 2000.
PSYHODRAMA TRAINING
PROVIDERS IN TURKEY
1. Dr. Abdülkadir Özbek Psyhodrama
Institute (Dr. AOPI) www.a.ozbek-psikodrama.com
Until 2001 the training was provided by 3
associations in 3 cities:
TGPD, IPGD, IPD. In 2001 Dr. AOPI (Ltd) was founded by
Inci Doganer, Aysel Özlü and Mehmet Seraner.
The total number of certified psychodramatists is
69. There are now 24 trainers and 14 co-trainers and
3 ethical committe members working for the
Institute. Currently, the
number of trainees is 200. Recently the Institute
started a training program in North Cyprus (KKTC, as recognised only by Turkey)
with 17 trainees. The
Institute is a member of FEPTO since 2001. Inci Doganer and Arsaluys Kayir
are now in the Council of FEPTO. There are 10 books on PD, 5 of which are
translations, published by TGPD and Dr. AOPI.
Psychodramatists has worked and are
working in many fields: In the co-treatment of
mental illnesses like schizophrenia, autism, mental
retardation, bipolar
disorder, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder,
substance abuse; in
family and couples therapy and in education. There are also PD seminars
directed in public halls in cooperation with
municipalities since 1995.
DR.
ABDULKADIR
OZBEK PSYCHODRAMA INSTITUTE
Address: Buyukesat Mahallesi Ugur
Mumcu Caddesi No 98/2 Gaziosmanpasa Ankara Turkey
Contact
Person:
Dr. Inci
Doganer
Address:
1735
sokak
No
56/A
Karsiyaka Izmir 35530 Turkey ; Tel: +90 232 368 71 50 Mobile Phone: +90 532
413 75 18 Fax: +90 232 323 08 56
E-mail:
inci.doganer@gmail..com
HISTORY: The training movement started with
Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek. In 1972, Dr. Ozbek met Dr.
Grete Leutz in Lubeck in a Psychotherapies Meeting. He was
working in Germany as a professor of psychiatry. Being
impressed by the psychodramatic method, he started his
own training with Dr. Leutz in Moreno Uberlingen
Institute. Coming back to Turkey, Ankara University, Dr.
Ozbek invited Dr. Leutz to Turkey for a couple of times
for workshops and seminars. In 1984 the nucleus of the
first systematic training for psychodramatic-sociometric
group psychotherapies started in Ankara. This was also
the start of a psychotherapy training in Turkey.
Meanwhile the Group Psychotherapies Association was
formed in 1974 and Congresses were being organized. From
1984 on, these congresses are held in Bergama, the ancient
Asclepion each year with the participation of
international psychodramatists and group
psychotherapists. In 1986 Dr. Ozbek enlarged the
training program and training groups were formed also in
Istanbul, Izmir and Bursa. With the support and
contributions of Uberlingen Moreno Institute trainers, he
managed to continue the difficult task of training in so
many places. Dr. Leutz, Dr. Franzke, Dr.
Gerstenberg, Dr. Gneist were visitor trainers. Later Dr.
Burmeister, Dr. Pinter, G. Ziegler, Dr. Gasseau, J. Moreno were added to the
list. The certification of first psychodramatists of the
Institute was made with contributions
from the
trainers of Uberlingen Moreno Institute. In 1996 the
Institute started colloquia by it’s own certified trainers.
Until 2001 the training continued as an activity of the non profit
organization Group Psychotherapies Association which later
became Turkish Group Psychoterapies Association. In June
2000, we lost Dr. Ozbek the founder of the training
organization. In 2001 a private company (Ltd) was founded by Dr. Doganer, A. Ozlu
and M. Seraner. After the death of A. Ozlu the private company
for a while was run by Dr.
Doganer, M. Seraner and T. Bisalman.
Now, it’s run by Dr. Doganer, B. Simsek and N.
Muhtar Uctum. The total
number of certified psychodramatists until 2006 is 69.
TRAINING
STAFF
Regional
Coordinators: Inci Doganer, Arsaluys Kayir, Bircan Simsek
Training
Coordination Committee Members: Ali Babaoglu, Inci
Doganer, Arsaluys Kayir, Emre Kapkin, Bircan Simsek, Fatih
Unal
There are in
total 9 trainers in Ankara, 11
trainers and 8 cotrainers in Istanbul and 5 trainers and 6
cotrainers in Izmir. There are also 3 ethical committee
members who are psychodramatists but not working as
trainers in the institute.
Representation
in FEPTO: Dr.
Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute became a member of
FEPTO in 2001 in France, the Grasse Meeting. Inci Doganer and Arsaluys
Kayir represent the Institute in FEPTO meetings. In 2004 Inci
Doganer was elected as a
Board member of FEPTO.
And in 2006, both Inci Doganer and Arsaluys Kayir
were elected as Board members of FEPTO.
TRAINING
CURRICULUM
Admission:
Medical doctors,
psychologists, psychological counsellors, social workers and qualified
nurses (educator, psychiatric nurse) are accepted to the
program. A candidate is interviewed by the primary trainer
and co trainer of the group.
Stages:
(Revised
in September 2004 to
conform to FEPTO MTS)
Introductory
stage:
(48
hours):
40 hours of group work
and 8 hours of theory.
Basic
training
stage
(400 hours): It
consists of 330 hours of self experience, 70 hours of
theory (Theory of basic tecniques, overview on philosopy
of Moreno, role theory, sociometry, group processing,
sociodrama, psychodrama in relation to other models of
psychotherapy, group dynamics, therapeutic factors and
developmental theories). It lasts from 2 to 4 years. At
least 48 hours of this stage is composed of seminars by other psychodrama
leaders. The trainee should be a protagonist at least 3
times and should lead at least 1 times his/her own
group. At least 3 protocol writings are supervised by
trainers. After evaluation
by the trainers (% 50 weighted) and the group members, the candidate is qualified as a
Psychodrama Assistant.
With this qualification he/she can become a codirector
for client groups.
Advanced
training
stage (480 hours). At least 230 hours of 480
hours consists of
conducting inside the advanced group under the direct
supervision of the trainers. There is a plus of
theoritical work with a total of 50 hours. Of these 480
hours, at least 48 hours is in an open group with other
leaders. Before 2004, own practice hours were 64
hours. We are gradually increasing these hours to conform
to FEPTO standards. We
are also trying to provide a room for individiual
supervision sessions. From 2006 on, the own practice
hours will increase to 160 hours. After this stage is
finished the trainee presents the diploma thesis of
his/her own group work in the colloquia. If accepted
he/she is qualified as a Psychodrama Therapist (in
the case of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and
medical doctors in special cases) or a Psychodrama
Leader. With this
qualification he/she can direct client groups. Some of
the graduates are selected by the trainers and examiners
for becoming a cotrainer in the Institute.
OTHER
ACTIVITIES
OF THE INSTITUTE
Annual
meeting in Bergama/Asclepion.
PUBLICATIONS
There
are 11 books, 6 of which are
translations, published
by Turkish Group Psychotherapies Association and
Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute.
2. Istanbul
Psychodrama Institute (IPI) and Istanbul Zerka Moreno
Institute www.istpsikodrama.com.tr
IPI was established in 1997 by Mr.
Altinay (MA) and Mrs Karabekir
(MA). IPI has got 108
trainees currently. IPI is
a member of FEPTO. The
number of graduates is 50. Beside the traning program,
the traditional summer workshops, conferences and
weekend workshops are run. There are also elective
seminars like child psychodrama, individual psychodrama,
role prediction test in marriage, family tree and
genosociograms and psychodrama. There are 5 books, 1 of which is translation, edited Mr. Altinay. Istanbul
Playback Theatre Company (1999) founded also by Mr.
Altınay is continuing its performances at stage and
trainings for everyone.
3. Umut
Psychodrama Institute founded in 1995 is directed
by G. Ziegler and Dr. E. Ziegler. www.umutpsikodrama.com
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Istanbul: Deniz Altinay
<denizaltinay@superonline.com> writes. As of May, 2007, we have seven
different training groups operating—almost 110 students—plus a
waiting list! As we continue to develop our program, we are
planning for another training for those about to become trainers
themselves. We have several sections— Child group psychodrama;
applications to schools and companies, and beginning couple and
family psychodramatic therapy, and
others. Five years ago we
began a troupe that practices Playback Theatre—our group has been
named (In Turkish) “Tiyatro Gosterisi.” We’ve done shows in
Istanbul, Ankara and Diyarbakir, I am the main director of the
group, we are working every week to improve their skills and one
in a month we are doing a performance. The themes are coming from
the audience and it is base on sociometry as it's nature, choices
or roles !! no comedy at all !! as Moreno said it was a very
serious business .
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2005:
Turkey: The
Istanbul Psychodrama Institute has a new email address:
psikodrama@superonline.com Deniz Altinay ( e-mail:
psikodrama@superonline.com web-site:
www.istpsikodrama.com.tr ) writes: The Istanbul
International Zerka Moreno Institute announces its 2005 summer
conference, August 2-4, at the Cesme-Altinyunus Hotel-Turkiye.
Theme: The Healing Tree: the Roots of Dramatherapy, led by Dr. Sue
Jennings, one of the pioneers of drama therapy. Plans are to
explore the roots of dramatherapy in theatre practice, through
metaphor and masks. We shall work through movement and dance,
projective and theatre based methods and interactive storytelling.
We shall explore the 'Great Story' in order to discover our own
story.
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Turkey (May, 2004): Deniz Altinay,
president of the Istanbul Psychodrama Institute
<ist.psikodrama@rt.net.tr> writes that he has recently
written and had published a book with the translated title:
"Creativity on Stage- Playback Theatre"). Istanbul: Aura
Publishing Company. It involves some chapters on history,
philosophy and techniques of playback theatre, using psychodrama
in theatre and some new parts like; "using playback theatre in
company trainings", "using psychodrama on stage decoration and
clothing", "some scenes from playback performances in Turkey" and
"the new performing techniques in playback". The book has been
enriched by adding those mentioned sections and by revisions.
( related web page http://www.agorakitapligi.com )
In October, 2004, we published
another new book on psychodrama titled "Psikodramada Secme
Konular" (in Turkish)(Istanbul: Aura Publishers). Also, the
discipline of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and
Sociometry has joined the program of universities in Turkey. One
of our graduates of the Istanbul Psychodrama Institute, Anil
Adanali Ko beker, has taught psychodrama for two terms a
psychodrama course for (three hours a week) in Istanbul's Maltepe
University, in the Department of Psychology.15 students
participated, learning both theatrical and practical
contents. Istanbul International
Zerka Moreno Institute Valikonagi Cad. Y.K.B.
Vakif Apt. No: 173 D: 4-9 Nisantasi - Istanbul,
Turkey. Tel: 0212 232 12 63 - 232 47
83 Fax: 0212 231 47 54
e-mail: ist.psikodrama@rt.net.tr web site:
www.istpsikodrama.com.tr
Turkey: December 2004:
Inci Doganer <inci.doganer@veezy.com> writes: Mark
your calendars: The 30th Annual Congress of
Asclepios/Bergama/Turkey Congress of Group Psychotherapies will be
held 25-28 May, 2005. (Hosted by the Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek
Psychodrama Institute, Istanbul Group Psychotherapies Association,
and Turkish Group Psychotherapies Association. For more
information, write: kongre@dalyatur.com
or akayir@superonline.com
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Turkey: Inci Doganer < inci.doganer@veezy.com
> from Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute, writes: We
had our annual Group Psychotherapies Congress between May 29-31,
2003. This congress the 28th. And it is done in the ancient
BERGAMA (Pergamon) Asclepion (One of the areas of the
temples of the ancient Greek god of healing, Asclepius) for the
20th time. In this unique place we had group workshops under the
tents and panels, conferences and performances in the
Asclepion Theater. The Congress is organised with the Turkish
Association of Group Psychotherapies (TAGP) and Dr. Abdulkadir
Ozbek Psychodrama Institute.
There were very well known
psychodramatists from the different parts of the world and also
psychodramatists from Turkey as group leaders. Grete Leutz,
who with Dr. Ozbek is one of the mothers of the idea of doing a
congress in such a meaningful place, the Asclepion, this year
conducted a psychodrama group with 22 people and gave a
lecture on Moreno's philosophy, his overall approach to man's fate
on this planet.
Judith Teszary, who is the
chairperson of FEPTO, conducted a group with 20 participants. The
theme of both the group workshop and her lecture was "When words
are not enough". She presented us the results of her reseach and
treatment program at the National Institute for Psychosocial
Factors and Health in Stockholm.
Jorge Burmeister from
Switzerland and I (Inci Doganer) worked together in the group
workshop tittled "The Theatre of Oppressed" with 30 participants.
Getting the inspiration from Augusto Boal's work we had a 3
days workshop and then a performance was done with the whole
audiance (all the participants and people from Bergama).
Jorge Burmeister also had
speech on "Soulless Bodies and Bodyless Souls. Psychotherapies in
the Time of War". Joseph Moreno from the USA conducted the music
therapy workshop tittled "Acting your inner music
--Exploring dimensions of music in group psychotherapy and
psychodrama--which is also the title of Joe Moreno's book. Gunter
and Elif Ziegler from Umut Institute/Turkey had a workshop on the
theme "Improvisation and awareness". Their lecture was on the
topic"power games and personal power". Ali Babaoglu's group
workshop was on the theme "loving and separation"; Emre Kapkin
worked with the theme "Dreams". Nevin Eracar also conducted a
music therapy workshop.
In addition to those there were two panel
discussions. One was on "Psychotherapies and World Peace" (J.
Moreno, G. Leutz, U.G risik and I. Doganer) and the other one
about "Death and Love" (E. Kapkin, A. Babaoglu, A. Kayir ).
During the congress
time 4 different psychodrama books were featured: (1) Turkish
translation of "Acting Your Inner Music. Music Therapy and
Psychodrama" by Joseph J. Moreno; (2) Turkish translation of
"Fairy Tales in Psychotherapy. The Creative Use of Old and New
Tales" by Erich Franzke; (3) "Deprem Protagonistleri"
(Protagonists from Marmara Earthquake) by Inci Doganer; and (4).
"Destek mi Kostek mi?" by Inci Doganer. With 240
participants, this 28th Group Psychotherapies Congress was a
great experience inspiring the power of hope and of togetherness
against deaths and wars.
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(October, 2002) Deniz Altinay, the president of the Istanbul
Psychodrama Institute (IPI) (Email:
<ist.psikodrama@rt.net.tr>
)
wrote:
We
would
like to share our latest news with you. Firstly, we would like to
announce our guest Joseph Moreno who has run our weekend
psychodrama training groups with 30 participants on the19-20th
October 2002 . As most of you may know him, Mr. Moreno is a
worldwide music therapist and psychodramatist. He had a lovely
weekend workshop about applying music therapy mostly in
psychodrama , also in dance therapy, art therapy. He presented his
slide show and ran an experiential workshop–and his training
enriched our experience.
Secondly, we would like to announce proudly that
Istanbul Playback Theatre company will start its performances in
different theatre companies. We are so glad that Di Adderley from
England will again work with our playback theatre performance team
for one full day workshop.
Lastly, in our psychodrama training
procedure 37 trainees from Basic Level, 12 trainees from Advanced
Level have just entered written examinations. we are hoping to
certify them soon.
August, 1999:
Arsaluz Kayir, (akayir@superonline.com) writes: Psychodrama began
with Prof. Abdulkadir Ozbek in the early 1970s in Ankara, and more
recently, centers for psychodrama training were founded in Izmir,
Istanbul and Bursa. We are today about 15 certified psychodrama
therapists who work in various universities, psychiatric hospitals
and other institutions in Turkey. I work in the Istanbul
University Medical School Psychiatry Department. We are part of
the "Turkish Association of Group Psychotherapies" at
<merkez@tegp.org.tr> or at web-page:
<www.Tagp.org.tr> which organizes an impressive
conference rich in ancient historical associations.
Ukraine: In 2009, Marcia Karp writes and sends
photos from her more recent training group!
|
Standing: .... Marcia Karp top
right... Others... ? ..... ?......?
Kneeling: ... ? ?
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Psychodrama Students, 2009: Standing: .
?....?....?...?....?
Kneeling low (bottom left, Pavel Gornostay . . .
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Marcia has just been appointed an adjunct professor at the
University there, and will teach a workshop every semester. In
December offered an introductory day-long lecture-demonstration on
psychodrama for fifty Ph-D candidates, graduate students and
faculty at the University.
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Marcia (from England) has been training there and writes: In Kiev,
in May 2008, there were 20 participants at my workshop. We
worked from 11 am to 9pm, with breaks. Two of thr group directed
with our long processing and I directed the rest of the time. This
coming June 5-7, 2009, in Kiev, I will be directing another
workshop on the theme of Psychodrama and Sexuality training.
Everything is simultaneously translated by a doctor who works to
supplement his income. Pavel Gornostay is also in our training
group; he has secured the rights from Routledge for the Handbook
of Psychodrama which is already translated and waiting for
publication and my preface.
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Pavel Gornostay 2003: <email to: gorn@univ.kiev.ua
> writes that at present there are are three centers of
psychodrama and three educational programs: The 1st group is
related with the Psychodrama Institute for Europe (PIfE). We have
PIfE certificates. We unite in the Kiev Psychodrama Association.
KPA has hosted 2 conferences on psychodrama, it has a website and
issues own journal. A third conference is being planned this
coming September!
Our trainers have mainly been from
Hungary and associated with the PifE: Sharolta Onody, Gyorgy Adam
Kiss, Kamilla Sarkady. Now we together with the Hungarian
colleagues have begun to train 2 new groups of students (about 35
persons). Trainers - Julianna Hardy and Gyula Goda..
The 2nd Training Program is associated with the
European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP). They were taught by
the Austrian trainers EAP and they have EAP certificates. The
majority of these psychodramatists unite in psychodrama section of
the Ukrainian Society of Psychotherapists. The USP office is in
Lvov. USP too have some educational projects (I do not know number
of students). I do not know names of trainers.
The 3rd group is related with the Moscow
Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama (MIGAP). They have MIGAP
certificates and conduct educational programs. Nifont Dolgopolov
supervises these programs. The most known trainers who led in
Ukraine short workshops (2-3 days), this are Marcia Karp, Ildiko
Mavers, Helmut and Sonja Beloch.
Students study from about 15 books,
mainly translations into Russian, including some by J. L. Moreno,
(i.e., Sociometry; Theatre of Spontaneity; Psychodrama), and
others by Gretel Leutz, David A. Kipper, Peter F. Kellerman, Paul
Holmes, Marcia. Karp, Eleanor Barz, Renee F. Marineau, and Adam
Blatner.
Our website of the Kiev Psychodrama Association
is: (In English:) http://users.i.com.ua/~p_gorn/psychodrama/7psy-e.html
(And
in
Russian:
http://users.i.com.ua/~p_gorn/psychodrama/7psy.html
)
Ukraine: 2005: < Pavel
Gornostay <gorn@univ.kiev.ua> writes: We have about 170 people
involved with psychodrama. 57 are trained
psychodramatists (14 certified by the Psychodrama
Institute for Europe (PIfE); 14 - certified by the
European Association of Psychotherapy (EAP); and 16
certified by the Moscow Institute of Gestalt and
Psychodrama (MIGaP). Five are trainers; thirteen
psychodramatists train psychodrama as co-therapists. About
one hundred persons study psychodrama: 12 under program
MIGaP, 33 PIfE, and 54 EAP. In Ukraine there are three
psychodrama theatres and playback troupes (2 in Kiev and 1
in Lvov) in which are engaged about 30 persons, about half
of them are psychodramatists. We have the following psychodrama organizations: the
Kiev Psychodrama Association (since 1997); a section
psychodrama of the Ukrainian Umbrella Association of
Psychotherapists (since 1998); the Psychological Center of
Organizational and Personal Development "NIKA" (since 2002).
On May 13-15 2005 on 3rd Ukrainian Psychodrama Conference
will be founded Ukrainian Psychodrama Association! In
addition, we began a journal, (translated as) Psychodrama and Modern
Psychotherapy, and since its inception in October
2002, we've produced about two numbers per year, so that
now ten numbers of journals have been issued. The articles
of authors from ten countries are in them.
There
is
a
website
of
the Kiev Psychodrama Association:
<http://www.psychodrama.kiev.ua>
Foreign experts did
workshops and trainings in Ukraine: Marcia Karp (Great
Britain), Jorge Burmister (Switzerland), Ildikó Mävers
(Germany), Nifont Dolgopolov (Russia), and many experts from
Hungary and Austria. On June 1 2005, Peter Felix Kellermann
(Israel) will arrive in Ukraine.
USA: The next American Society
for Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama national conference will
be held April 27 to May 1, 2006, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel
near Union Square, in the best section of San Francisco, one of
the most glamorous cities in the world! Please mark your
calendar, check with the ASGPP website: www.asgpp.org for
the call for papers, consider presenting, and at least attend!
Venezuela, May, 2001:
Lucia Losada <lucial@telcel.net.ve> sends an update: about
20 people now are actively using psychodrama. The Venezuelan
School of Psychodrama has 6 training directors, including Niksa
Fernandez; Henry Gonzalez, Edwin Muńoz; Luis Caldera, Lucía Losada
and about 45 students in training. They mainly use books by Adam
Blatner, Dalmiro Bustos, Eva Leveton, Victor Dias, Rosa Cukier,
Marcia Karp and Marineau’s biography of Moreno.. Last September
(2000) a national conference in Caracas was attended by 40 people.
We’re sending 14 delegates to the 3rd Ibero-American Congress of
Psychodrama in Oporto, Portugal, in April (2001).
Yugoslavia: " Multi-cultural Training Days:"
The second 4-day conference was
held also in Belgrade, mid-October, 2003. attended by about 40
therapists and psychodramatists-in-training, and led by seven
trainers (all certified): (From Yugoslavia:) Vladimir Milosevic,
Zoran Ilic, Zoran Djuric and Jasna Veljkovic; (From England):
Peter Haworth; (from Israel:) Oded Navé; and (from Macedonia:)
Svonko Dzokic. One of the goals was to promote an encounter
among people with various psychodrama-training experiences from
different cultures. The first of these conferences was held
in Belgrade September 19-23, 2002 and attended by around 40
students and 6 trainers from Yugoslavia, England, Israel, Greece,
Croatia and Scotland. It was hosted by Dr. Vladimir
Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Oded Nave of Israel. Other trainers
included Peter Haworth and Dr. Susie Taylor of England, Zoran Ilic
and Zoran Joric of Yoguslavia, and trainers and trainees from
Greece.
The structure of the main part of
the conference involved (1) A morning psychodrama session with the
entire community, followed by 45 min processing of the morning
session. The processing session was conducted by an observer - a
CP or TEP who facilitate the discussion. (2) Every afternoon 3
parallel on-site supervision sessions were conducted in which a
trainee was conducting a psychodrama session and the work was
evaluated and processed by the supervisor - TEP and the group. (3)
The last element of each day was large group session for the
reflection of the day events and dynamic. We were blessed with
very unique phenomena in this conference. Quite a few afternoon
sessions were conducted by trainees who were directing for the
first time. Witnessing and supervising a trainee conduct a session
for the very first time is a very special event and is evidence of
the high level of trust that the trainees had in the process. In
the last evening of the conference we had a farewell session. The
evenings were devoted to informal encounters of participants
mainly in restaurants.
The next training is scheduled for
October 14-17, 2004 in Zagreb, Croatia. This is a provisional
venue. The final decision and program of the next conference is
scheduled for January 2004. (We're thinking of holding the
Fall, 2005 conference in England.) For more information
contact E-mail Address or Telephone: Oded Navé,
Israel:
odednave@zahav.net.il
00972-3-6812368
Vladimir Milosevic, Serbia: vmilosevic@ian.org.yu
00381-63-8050615
The third
conference was held in mid-October,
2004, in Zagreb, Croatia.
"Oded Nave" <odednave@zahav.net.il> writes: The Third Cross
cultural Training Days was held as an International Psychodrama
Seminar, with the theme: "The Group as a Microcosmos". It was held
in mid-October in Zagreb, Croatia. www.tcpsychodrama.info. This
group is sustained by the British Psychodrama Association-Oxford
Psychodrama Group, Oxford, UK; the Croatian Psychodrama
Association, Zagreb, Croatia; the Kivunim Training Institute in
Psychodrama, Tel Aviv, Israel; and the Yugoslav Psychodrama
Association, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro. For more
information: Email: danko.drakulic@zg.tel.hr
Plans are made to repeat the mini-conference in October
16-20, 2003, in Thessalonka, in northern Greece. If interested,
contact the hosts at <odednave@zahav.net.il>
and/or <vladapsi@EUnet.yu>
Also, on Febuary 27-March 2, 2003 a
workshop for trainers and trainees in YUPA (Yugoslav Psychodrama
Asociasion) will take place in Belgrade. The topic of the workshop
is "The integration of Expressive Art Therapy Models in
Psychodrama". The main emphasis will be on art, music and
movment/dance therapies. The different models and theories will be
presented in didactic and experiencial ways. The conductor of the
workshop is Oded Nave, M.A, C.A.G.S. TEP, founder and main teacher
and therapist of "Kivunim-Institut for Psychodrama and Group Work"
and "Tel Aviv School for Psychodrama". This is his 4th visit
to Yugoslavia in the last year and a half. Next year the seminar will be
in England, 8-11 of September (2005)!
Serbia: Following a successful event
in 2002, we has our second 4-day conference in mid-October,, 2003,
in Belgrade, Serbia: Our "Trans-Cultural Training Days,"
Yugoslavia:
Yugoslavia: Jasna Veljkovic <jasnapsi@EUnet.yu> writes: I am
now (Spring, 2006) the co-president of the Yugoslav Psychodrama
Association along with Zoran Djuric. We enjoyed meeting our
colleagues from other countries at the International Conference in
Oxford, England, in August, 2004, along with Vladimir Milosevic, a
trainer in psychodrama and Dusan Potkonjak another trainer. While
there seem to be about 20 psychodrama psychotherapists in our
country (maybe less), there are many, many others who have taken
some workshops and practice the elements of psychodrama in
their field of work, which seems to be true for most training
programs in most countries..
Our History: In 1985. Dusan
Potkonjak(psychiatrist), was working on the Institute of
Psychiatry, in Belgrade(Yugoslavia). He was on one
International Congress in Psychotherapy in Zagreb (Zagreb was in
ex Yugoslavia, at that time it was the same country, now Zagreb is
in Croatia). He acknowledged there Prof. Dr. Andrew Powell. They
made a contact. Andrew was at that time psychodrama trainer in
Oxford. Dusan invited him to come to Belgrade and make a
workshop. In 1986, Andrew, came the first time in Belgrade and did
the first workshop in psychodrama.
Dusan started with his Psychodrama education
with Marcia Carp and the late Ken Sprague, and then created the
first Psychodrama Group in Belgrade, in the Autumn of
1986.The group consisted of young doctors and
psychologist. Andrew Powell accepted to run education in
Psychodrama, as a kind of overseas training and Belgrade School of
Medicine-department of Psychiatry supported that as a
British Council too.
Many of the BPA trainers were coming to
Belgrade in the period from>1986-1993 and did the workshops
with Dusan's educational-experiential group(Marcia, Ken, Mike
Watson, Inece Buckley, John Casson, Rudy Neyeger..etc).In that
group were: Zoran Djuric/psychiatrist, Zoran Ilic-psychiatrist,
Vladimir Milosevic-psychiatrist, Zvonko Dzokic-psychiatrist and
Jasna Veljkovic, clinical psychologist (me). In that
education, were people from the Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia.
In 1990, our country began to disintegrate, the
war started, and in 1993, Dusan moved to England, though he has
been returning twice a year to Belgrade to give workshops. In
2005. he formed SPA-Moreno, his Psychodrama Center for education
in psychodrama. I am one of the trainers in his school.
One of our colleagues, dr Zvonko Dzokic, who
finished education in psychodrama in Belgrade and is from
Macedonia-Skopje, returned to his country. He formed Macedonian
Psychodrama Association. He wrote a book on psychodrama in
Macedonia a long time ago.
After Dusan left country, four of us
formed the Yugoslav psychodrama Association. We passed process of
grandparenting and become the member of FEPTO, EAP, IAGP. We have
been training students for some time. Our supervisors since 1989
have been Susie Taylor and Peter Haworth, trainers in Oxford, who
have given workshops for us and our students every year in
Belgrade. Our training school is more oriented to the object
relations school of psychoanalysis (as influenced by Melanie
Klein), while Vladimir’s institute is more based on family therapy
approaches.
We have published two books on psychodrama. The first,
“Psychodrama I Sociodrama, by Veljkovic & Djuric, first
published in 1998, is now in a revised 2nd edition, in Serbian
language. Another illustrated little book simply titled
“Psychodrama” was first produced in Serbian and is now being
published in English by Jessica Kingsley in the UK. (It has also
been published in 2005 by Daimon Publishing in Sao Paolo, Brazil,
with a preface written by Jose Fonseca (in Portugese) It's
translated also on creation language,edited by Alinea- Zagreb,
2004. We are also editors of the first Psychodrama journal
in our country, published in 2004, in both Serbian and English
language!
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Susie Taylor of the U.K.(email:
dikkta@aol.com ) has been one of the pioneers of
training in this country. She writes in February, 2003 (and I have
edited a good deal) I first taught in Montenegro in response
to a request by Dr. Dusan Potkonjak, who had heard of our
traveling psychodrama group - we (including the late Michael
Watson) had previously been to Greece on the island of Angestri
and then to Finland. Periodic training has continued since then,
with the groups growing nicely.
In 1997 there was the First Balkan Psychodrama
Conference in Ohrid, Macedonia. It is also important to
acknowledge Ducan who began and completed his training here in
England and started the whole psychodrama movement, as well as
Andrew Powell, Mike Watson, John Casson, Marcia Karp and Ken
Sprague who have all worked with these people. I would
encourage you to support work done in all the Balkan countries in
any way you can.
In
the
Spring,
2004, Maksimovic
Aleksandar <belmax5@eunet.yu
> writes: Within the Yugoslavian
Psychodrama Association (YUPA) there are about 55-60
people (including 6 trainers)–and most of the others are still in
training. We also have about 10 people who finished 5 years (800
hours) of psychodrama training. At present, YUPA has 5
teaching groups in Belgrade and one in Novi Sad (visiting trainers
from Belgrade). And, of course, there is another one psychodrama
group in Belgrade, run by Dusan Potkonjak (as far as I know he is
BPA trainer), and this group is not part of YUPA. YUPA is
strongly connected with BPA, especially through Susie Taylor a
trainer, who visits fairly often. Another trainer is Oded Nave,
from Israel.
We use a number of books, such as Kellermann's
book, Focus on Psychodrama, Blatner's Acting-in, Paul Holmes The
Inner world Outside, etc. Our trainers are: Dr Vladimir Milosevic,
Zoran Ilic, Zoran Djuric, and Jasna Veljkovic. We have some
articles published in various journals, addressing topics such as
psychodrama in work with children without parental care;
psychodrama with disabled persons (in wheelchairs); and
applications with refugees and war victims.
August, 2000: Zoran
Ilic <zorani@EUnet.yu> writes: Several colleagues and I were
in Cologne (Germany) for a three day seminar at Ella Mae Shearon’s
Institute for psychodrama, organized by her and Urlike Blatter–who
directs a humanitarian organization dealing with victims of war in
formerYugoslavia. It was not only psychodrama seminar, but
combined with other therapies, such as body therapy and Tai Chi,
with a participants from Switzerland and Germany and Bosnia and
Kosovo. Although the psychodrama part was good, it addressed
mainly burnout and personal issues, and didn’t use sociodrama to
go into the unresolved conflicts between "ex-enemies". For
several from Bosnia and Kosovo it was their first
psychodrama experience and they seemed excited by the power of
this method. It is too early for us from Serbia to start any
program there, because we have a lot to do here with victims of
war and we’re also financially strapped. Ella would help with
organization. We have offered some psychodrama programs for
working with trauma victims in Serbia after bombing, some drug and
alcohol prevention in adolescents etc. but due to political
reasons western countries are not interested in it. So we are
going to continue our work with several therapy groups and five
education groups. Four of us became members of FEPTO.
We are also preparing and
organizing the International Congress of psychodrama in
September next year in Igalo, Montenegro. We also struggling with
some political problems associated with publishing the first
journal of psychodrama and war describing some sociodramas
conducted both during the bombing here, and also after the war in
Budapest and Bari (Italy).
August, 1999: Zoran Ilic
(zorani@EUnet.yu) writes: Psychodrama here began in 1958,
when Moreno taught in Belgrade, although psychoanalysis remained
the dominant mode. In 1986 Dushan Potkonjak reintroduced
psychodrama in Belgrade and started he first training group,
supervised by Andrew Powell of England. Since 1989 seven
psychodramatists have passed the exam, but now only four continue
to work and run groups here. Susie Taylor and occasionally others
from the U.K. continue to train in Belgrade and Macedonia. Five
training groups in Belgrade have more that 50 members, and the
method is being used in treating a wide range of problems. In 1998
the Yugoslav Psychodrama Association was founded. The first
psychodrama book in Serbian (by Zoran Djuric (zdjuric@EUnet.yu)
and Jasna Veljkovic) was published last year, and we are planing
to publish a journal.
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