Adam Blatner's Papers*   on:

(Revised February 8, 2010)

* For publications in chapters in books, articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, and so forth, see webpage listing his publications .


Psychotherapy and General Psychology Topics:

{A Psychiatrist's Notebook: A Brief Introduction to the other articles in this section of the website:}  (June, 2006)

Aggregate Experiences     (1/16/07)

 Anger Management: Some Techniques

Applied Role Theory: A User-Friendly Language for Psychology

Archetypes: The Relevance of the Concept

The Art of Case Presentation

The Art of Case Formulation

The Art of Psychotherapy: Reflections    (12/28/06)

Being Nice: It's Not So Easy    (12/6/05)

Belongingness         (6/20/08)    

Bringing Others Forth: Reflections on Helping   (8/18/06)

Broadening the Horizons of Psychotherapy (5/15/08)

Boundaries & Access in Relationships (1/27/10)

"The Choosing Self": Developing the meta-role functions.   (5/2/06) 

 The "Collective" in Psychology

Complexities of Mind   (1/14/07)

Conflict Resolution: Techniques

Control and Surrender: Seeking a Wise Balance   (7/6/08)

Creative Arts Therapies: Some Perspectives

Creative Mythmaking

Deep Maturity: (A lecture series for Senior University Georgetown)  October, 2008
    1. Introduction         2. Principles (based on Tarot Cards)
    3. Further Principles    4. Psycho-Alchemy   4a. (Further notes on Alchemy)
     5. Mandalas and Soul Lessons            6. Maps of the Journey
   Addenda: "Merit Badges"    Esoteric Mandalas

Depths of Psychology: "A Poor, Forked Creature"  12/07    

Diagnosis in Psychiatry  (June 15, 2006) 

Diagnostic Variables--The Most "Relevant" Ones

Doubt versus Conviction: A Spectrum of Temperament

Emotional Intelligence & Social & Emotional Learning: Some References

Exploring Interpersonal Preference     2/11/07

Factors in Human Development

Five Levels of Awareness   

Forgiveness           (10/18/05)

Four Types of Learning

Grief Work: Principles and Strategies

Reflections on Hazing

Hermeneutics: The Art of Interpretation     4/4/08

The Hero Process

The Hero's Journey

"Imaginative Abuse"

Individuality    

The "Inner Brat": Considering the Primal Illusions   12/07

Just a Little Bit: Reflections Lesser Psychodynamics

Mandalas: Practical Applications (Part 1, Basic Principles)  (Presentation at the AATA Conference 11/09)
 Mandalas: Part 2, Further Applications.

Medications: A Psychiatrist's Perspective  (June 15, 2006)   

Metaphors in Psychotherapy

(The) More We Can Be (about Role Expansion as a Primary Drive) 8/06

Mutuality in Psychotherapy

Not in the Books: Some Personal Observations

Nonverbal Communications Part 1: Overview

Nonverbal Communications, Part 2: Learning by Using Experiential Methods

Ongoing Negotiations     12/07

Optimism (Reasons for Optimism) 2/17/06

Paradigm Shifts (Current--Overview)     (6/26/08)  

   Paradigm Shift 1: Meta-Meta-Cognition    (6/22/08)

Perpetrator PTSD: Thoughts About Unresolved Guilt     5/31/07

Personal Meaning: Associated Fields

Personal Meaning: Deepening via Dramatic Approaches

Postmodernism: Frequently Asked Questions

The Primal Illusions of the "Inner Brat"    (11/20/07)

Psycholog-ization    (3/21/07)

Relational Disorders: Problems of "Diagnosis"

Role Dynamics: An Integrative Approach to Psychology
    and a User-Friendly Language
   

Role Theory Bibliography

Role Questions (What you can ask yourself about a role)

Role Analysis

Self-Awareness (Six Lectures for Senior University Georgetown, October, 2009)
    1. Introduction              2.  Motivations               3. Foolish Coping Techniques
    4. Body Cues, Temperament, & other Factors    5. Social Connectedness 
    6. Spirituality & Summary

Self: Psychological Reflections on the Nature of the Self

Self-Deception: Understanding through Role Dynamics 

Social Being-Ness: How we are socially embedded

Tele: The Dynamics of Rapport

Unhelpful Overgeneralizations: A Form of Psychobabble

The University of Yourself: A Curriculum for Integrative Learning

The World Needs You: A Brief Reflection on Meaning


Psychodrama Topics:

Blatner's Chapter on Psychodrama in the 7th edition (2004) of "Current Psychotherapies," a textbook comparing different approaches, edited by Raymond J. Corsini and D. Wedding, (updated to 2007) (click on either Instructors' or Students' "companion site" and when there, off to the left, under "Additional Resources" you'll see "Additional Chapters," which will then let you find my chapter and download it free!

Advancing Theory in Psychodrama: Notes.  

Announcements of International and National Psychodrama Events
(new!)

Awards given by the American Society for Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama (ASGPP) in the Past      (7/20/06)

Axiodrama   4/7/08

Books and Papers about Psychodrama for Sale!   (New!)

Considering Moreno's Contributions     8/06

Directory of Psychodramatists: Photos and Captions, National & International!

Drama in Education as Mental Hygiene: A Child Psychiatrist's Perspective

Expanding Communications Through Psychodrama    4/4/08

Family Sculpture in Psychodrama, An Example    9/4/09

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)   (New!)

"Grouptalk": A Psychodrama Listserve: How to Subscribe

Historical Distortions of Psychodrama: Mistakes in the Professional Literature

Another Recent Example of a Historical Distortion of Psychodrama

Historical Outline of Group Psychotherapy & Psychodrama

History of Psychodrama: Miscellaneous Notes

The History of Psychodrama in Brazil

Imaginative Interviews: A Psychodramatic Warm-up
  for Developing Role-Playing Skills

International Psychodrama News
    Past International Psychodrama News A-E
       Past International Psychodrama News F-M
           Past International Psychodrama News N-Z

Making Magic: Part of the Drama Therapist's (or Psychodramatist's) Repertoire

The Magic Shop: Notes

Master of Ceremonies: A New Role for Psychodramatists & Drama Therapists    (4/21/06)

Moreno's "Idee Fixe"

Moreno's Influence on Martin Buber's Dialogical Philosophy -- Robert Waldl  (2/7/10)

Open Letter to Psychodramatists

Performance Awareness (A consideration of its associated psycho-social     dynamics).   November, 2006 ... Also, a related paper on the
Development of Performance Awareness

Photo Directory of Psychodramatists (index)
     including photos of international leaders)
     Photos of Dr. J. L. Moreno, Zerka Moreno (and other Historical Figures)
           "        scenes on psychodrama stages
       Photographs of the "Moreno Wood" in Brazil

A "Psychodramatic" Story (an old Hasidic Tale)

Psychodrama 'a deux' (applications in one-to-one counseling)  Jim Vandermay 5/21/08

Resources in Psychodrama

The "Richness" of Psychodrama

Re-Visioning Psychodrama (Plenary Presentation at ASGPP, 4/11/08)

Psychodrama as Ritual

Role Dynamics: An Integrative Approach to Psychology
    and a User-Friendly Language
   

Role Playing in Education

Sociodrama (Reflections and Introductory Remarks)  posted 10/17/09

Sociodrama in Education (paper written first in 2006, posted 10/17/09)

Sociometry Bibliography (Revised, 7/3/09)

Sociometry Notes 1   

Sociometry Notes 2: Exploring Your Connectedness  

Sociometry Notes 3:  Current Issues

(The Psychodrama) Stage (Diagrams and Descriptions)  (3/24/08)

Teaching Empathy    

Tele: The Dynamics of Rapport

Theoretical Foundations of Psychodrama

Theory in Psychodrama (Part 2)

Why Drama? Considering the Underlying Rationale for Using Interactive and Improvisational Drama            October, 2006

Zerka Moreno's Workshop Notes

Zerka Moreno: Many Faces of Drama (1997)

(see also under philosophy below, articles on Re-Story-ing the Soul and Enacted Dialogue) 


Philosophy & Spirituality

Approaches to a New Religious Sensibility  (Jan 30, 2009)

Science versus Religion  (2/6/09)
    
Intelligent Design: A Commentary (8/18/05)
     The Fine-Tuned Universe   (mid-2005)

     Critiquing the Leaps of Faith Associated with
       the Concept of the Biblical God
 


Comments by Adam Blatner on
      Wayne Teasdale's List of Needed Paradigm Shifts  (9/05)
      Issues in Interfaith Spirituality
      Guidelines  for Inter-Religious Understanding (11 /05)
      Ten Principles of Creation Spirituality (11/05)

Postmodernism: The Implications for Psychotherapy

Ethical Issues That Need to be Considered Nowadays

Exploring Spiritual Issues using Enacted Dialogue

Faith and the Matrix of Meaning     (11/17/06)

God Actively Being Everything     (12/24/06)

Image-ing God: a theological contemplation


Interfaith Spirituality: Six Lectures: (1/26/08 - 3/3/08)
    1: Overview   2. Cultural Trends.  3: L. Reed: Further Aspects.   4. L. Mitchell: Experience and Enthusiasm
    5. Common Denominators.           6.  Implications

Life is Greater than What Can Be Lived   (11/26/08)

My Mandala Drawings and Their Meanings      (12/6/05)

     Esoteric Mandalas  (11/27/08)

     More Mandalas     2008      2007      (12/08)

Myths for Today 

Poetic Theology   (1/30/07)                        

Practicing Dying 

(The) Process Theology of Alfred North Whitehead:
   Its Relevance from a Psychiatrist's Perspective

Proportionality in Religion     12/16/08

Re-Story-ing the Soul

Scientists' Bible   12/07

Spiritual Issues in Psychotherapy: Some Common Themes

The Sri Yantra as a Symbol for Contemplation          (12/12/08)

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life: A Map of the Soul  

    References to Papers on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life   

   Supplemental Material on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life  

    Another Essay on the Tree of Life
 
The Tarot of Creativity

Yoga: the Wider Dimensions      1/12/09


Other Topics

Why Attacking Iraq is a Baaad Idea: 18+ reasons

Why we should leave Iraq: 20 or more reasons 

Challenging the "war on drugs"

Folk Dancing for Fun

History of Medicine: Some Stories (Lectures Given to Feburary 2009 Senior University Georgetown)
      1. Introduction: Invention of the Microscope, Beginnings of Germ Theory
          1a: Supplement: Very Brief Overview Pre-history to around 1550.
          1b. Supplement:  Very Brief Overview: History of Medicine since 1600.
          1c: Supplement:  Further History of the Microscope
       2. Contagion, Infection, Antisepsis
       3. The Beginnings of Immunology
       4. Anaesthetics
       5. Dietary Deficiency Diseases (still being worked on)
       6. Hygeine: Cholera, Hookworm, Sanitation.
            6a: Dental Hygiene and Plaque Control

Singing for the Fun of It

Alphabets & Writing Systems: ("Scriptology")
      Notes on Scriptology   (6/27/08) 

Bibliography on Alphabets & Writing Systems

Why My Mother Threw Out My Comic Books
    Part 1: A Brief History 1890s to 1948 (Setting up the Main Drama)  (posted 6/14/09)
    Part 2:  The EC Comics Story, Dr. Fredric Wertham, and the Comics Code (not yet posted)
    Part 3: A Brief History of  Comic Books after 1956
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