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(Compiled by Adam Blatner, Revised April 17, 2008.) Here are Jim Leach, Eva Leveton, Louise Lipman, Rene Marineau, Sue McMunn, Beverly Miles, Connie Miller, Rosalie Minkin Belazar, Dave Moran, Gina Moreno, Jonathan Moreno, Joe Moreno, Zerka Moreno, John Mosher Directory of Psychodramatists (USA: L-M)
For other pages on the directory, click here for the Main Directory Page.
Jim Leach, J.D., T.E.P., has practiced law since 1976. He first participated in psychodrama in 1980. In addition to his law practice in
Rapid City, South Dakota, he is a trainer at Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyers College. He uses psychodramatic methods as a consultant with lawyers to help lawyers and their clients at any stage of the case, including preparation for trial. He is the lead author of Psychodrama and Trial Lawyering (Trial Magazine, April 1999). E-mail: jim@southdakotajustice.com.
Web site: www.southdakotajustice.com .
Eva Leveton, Ph.D., lives in San Rafael, California, (north of San Francisco) and teaches as adjunct faculty for the Drama Therapy Program California Institute for Integral Studies. She's the author of The Clinician's Guide to Psychodrama (now in 3rd ed.; Springer, 2001).
Louise Lipman, CSW, TEP, is a past president of the ASGPP and on the faculty of the Psychodrama Training Institute in New York City. She has been active for many years and has a number of interests .
Rene Marineau is a recent past President of the ASGPP (2003-2005). Living in Yamachiche, in Quebec, he is also the author of the definitive biography of J. L. Moreno, and has continued to do scholarly research, most recently making available a variety of Moreno's old professional training movies-- in CD-ROM or video format. . .
Sue McMunn, now in Florida, has been a great supporter of psychodrama--one of the conference chairpersons in 1999, and actve photographer, etc. .
Beverly Miles is a psychodramatist in the San Jose, California area, and also hostst training workshops at her center in Costa Rica, in Central America. She is also interested in applications of psychodrama in education. .
Connie Miller, CSC, NCC, PAT, is co-director of the Institute for Creative Action and (in 1997) developer of Souldrama®, an action-oriented system that takes groups and individuals through a six-stage process of spiritual discovery using psychodrama and the creative arts. Souldrama® was trademarked in 1999 as a therapeutic tool created for use as an adjunct to psychodrama and designed to move clients from co-dependency to co-creativity. Connie is the founder of the International Institute of Souldrama and also the owner of the Spring Lake Heights Counseling Center and Center For Codependency in New Jersey. Connie has developed a new model to access our spiritual intelligence that gives structure to psychodrama and includes, group psychotherapy, the creative arts, energy work and sociometry. By incorporating spirituality and action methods into the psychological process to help a client access their spiritual intelligence, Souldrama helps clients to move past resistance to remove the blocks that stop one from moving forward onto their higher purpose by aligning the ego and soul Additionally, she is responsible for bringing the technique of Souldrama to the American Counseling Association where she is a member of ASGW, ACC,and has brought action techniques including the process of Souldrama to the National Board of Certified Counselors as well as to the field of addictions. Connie has run trainings in Souldrama for the past fifteen years in Mexico, Portugal, Greece and in England, Brazil and presently runs her own training group in Souldrama.. Her book Souldrama, a Journey into the Heart of God has recently been published in Brazil in Portuguese. Routledge press includes her chapter "Psychodrama, Spirituality and Souldrama" in the book New Advances in Psychodrama (published June 2007). Her article, Souldrama: Its Techniques and Applications has been published by the International Journal of Action Methods, Winter 2000 and more recently, the Korean Journal of Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy has published her article, "Souldrama: a psychotherapeutic technique to access spiritual intelligence.
Address: connie@souldrama.com or see www.souldrama.com .
Rosalie Minkin Belazar, TEP, MSW, ATR. Over the past 25 years has used sociodrama and psychodrama with an assortment of groups ranging from corporate lawyers, first time youth offenders and psychiatric patients. Rosalie is the founder of the "Full Circle" intergenerational sociodrama group" and has taught sociodrama at universities and presented at numerous conferences. She is currently writing a book: "Sociodrama for Our Times." Email her at rorobear@aol.com . .
Dave Moran is on the ASGPP Executive Council and has helped integrate our organization with the International Association for Group Psychotherapy. He is a certified addictions counselor and a licensed social worker. . .
Regina "Gina" Moreno is an educator and especially interested in the applications of her father's ideas in the schools. She is J. L. Moreno's first child. She lives in Berkeley, California ..
Jonathan Moreno is now Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. (He's the only child of Moreno and his second wife, Zerka--i.e., Moreno's second child.) . .
Joseph Moreno is a music therapist as well as a psychodramatist, and wrote about the integration of these two modalities in his book, Acting Your Inner Music, (1999, Barcelona Publishers.) He now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and travels nationally and internationally to teach about the combination of psychodrama and music and the history of music with the healing arts. Email to: joem@maryville.edu
or see his website: www.morenoinnermusic.com . . .
Zerka Moreno, around 1991.
John Mosher, M.A. TEP, has been the main trainer of psychodrama in the Seattle, Washington area for over fifteen years.
If you're an active psychodramatist and want to network with your colleagues, please send me your photo as an attached .jpg format file--at a resolution of 72 dpi (dots per inch) and the image at about 2-3 inches, so that it ends up being less than 40 kb size)
Also, please send in the text of the email to me around 50-60 words describing your interests, your email or website if you want that published and linked to, and what you'd want your colleagues in psychodrama to know about you. Email to: adam@blatner.com
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