Directory of Psychodramatists Internationally (D-G)

(Compiled by Adam Blatner; Revised, July 13, 2008). To see others, go to the Index of the Psychodrama Directory .  Here are some noted trainers: On this site are: Sue Daniel, Roberto DeInocencio, Nifont Dogolopov, Inci Doganer, Luigi Dotti,  Inara Erdmanis, Eva Fahlstrom, Chris Farmer, John Faisandier, Taher Fathi, Marisol Filgueira Bouza, Violeta Firestone, Heloisa Fleury, Jose Fonseca, Pierre Fontaine, Jutta Fuerst, Kevin Franklin, Mauricio Gasseau, Friedel Geisler,  Hans-Werner Gessmann

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  Sue Daniel is the Director of the Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, founder of the Moreno Psychodrama Society in Australia and chairperson of the Australian Psychodrama Assessment and Advisory Board. I have a particular interest in the application of role theory, which makes the use of psychodrama very practical in many fields and workplaces."   Email: suedan@netspace.net.au    Website: http://www.netspace.net.au/~theo/WWW/SueDaniel.htm


 
 

  Roberto DeInoncencio, M.D., a major psychodrama trainer and psychiatrist in Spain, and the past president of the International Association of Group Psychotherapists  (IAGP). 


 
 
  Inci Doganer, M.D.
 
Inci Doganer (M.D)  is the co-president of Dr. Abdulkadir Ozbek Psychodrama Institute, where she serves as: Director of training, supervisor, trainer, FEPTO representative, congress organizer,  organizer of the training program of trainers .  She is living and working in Izmir. She has been in Turkish psychodramatic movement since 1986. She also runs a private practice as a psychiatrist, psychodramatist.and family/ couple therapist. She is the author of two books (in Turkish) and translator/translation editor into Turkish of three other books about psychodrama..





 

  Nifont Dogolopov, a major psychodramatist in Moscow, Russia (Photo taken in 1994).

  Luigi Dotti, a psychologist and psychodramatist in Italy (for almost 25 years), concerned particularly with group psychotherapy with adults and children. He integrates classical psychodrama (Moreno), playback theatre (Jonathan Fox) and psicomotricité rélationelle (Lapierre - Aucouturier). Dr. Dotti works in the Public Health Service, and wrote two books about psychodrama: Forma e azione (Shape and action) 1998, and Lo psicodramma dei bambini (Children Psychodrama) 2002. I have two websites: www.psicosociodramma.it  and www.playback.it   His e-mail: info@psicosociodramma.it     .                                                                                                    .


 

  Inara Erdmanis, Psychologist, MA, TEP (by Nordic Board), Founder and President of the Latvian Moreno Institute and Cofaunder of the Stockholm Institute for Psychodrama, Sociometry and Groupsychotherapy. Supervisor for the European Intitute for Psychodrama. Trainer, Supervisor and Examiner in Latvia, Sweden and some other European contries. e-mail: ina.erd@bredband.net 

 

 

  Eva Fahlstrom, psychodrama trainer in Sweden.


 
 

  Chris Farmer, M.D., Psychodramatist on the Isle of Man, just off the west coast of Great Britain. Author of book, "Psychodrama and Family Systems Theory." 


 
 
        

  

John Faisandier TEP is a staff member of the Wellington Psychodrama Training Institute.  He qualified as a psychodramatist in 1994 and worked at the alcohol and drug treatment centre, Queen Mary Hospital, Hanmer Springs for four years.  He is now based in Wellington, New Zealand.  He is convenor of the ANZPA Ethics Committee, having co-ordinated the re-writing of the Complaints Procedure and Code of Ethics.  John runs his own training company TUF: Thriving Under Fire www.tuf.net.nz  which specialises in training front line staff to deal with angry and aggressive customers.  Several psychodrama trained facilitators run workshops through this company. He can be contacted at john@tuf.net.nz                                                                                                                                                                 .  



 Taher Fathi, psychologist in Teheran, Iran, pioneering psychodrama there, author of books on psychodrama.  Email: fathitpd@yahoo.com 


 
 

 Marisol Filgueira Bouza. Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist, certified by the FEAP and FEATF. She runs a Psychodrama School in La Coruña (Spain), named ITGP-Galicia. She works at a Psychiatric Inpatients Unit (Hospital Marítimo de Oza, La Coruña). Past President of the 'Asociación Española de Psicodrama' (AEP), 1996-1998. E-Mail: marisol.filgueira@wanadoo.es (home) ;  Soledad.Filgueira@canalejo.org  (work)                                                                                                                .

 

 
 

  Violeta Firestone, pioneering psychodrama in Bolivia


 

  Heloisa Fleury, of Brazil, is a psychologist in private practice in Sao Paulo (for 27 years), has taught psychodrama, and does research on the results of group psychotherapy for women's problems relating to sexuality. She was President of the Brazilian Federation of Psychodrama (FEBRAP) for two terms,  1999-2002, and is now one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee of the next IAGP Congress (to be held in Sao Paulo in 2006). Her email address is: Hjfleury@ig.com.br  Address: Rua Sergipe 401 conjunto 808, Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil, CEP 01243-906
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  Jose Fonseca, M. D., Ph. D., is one of pioneers of Psychodrama in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and one of the founders of the Brazilian Federation of Psychodrama, the organization that unites 4000 psychodramatists in Brazil. He has published three books: Psychodrama of Madness (1980, now in the 6th edition) and Relationship Psychotherapy (both in Portuguese), and soon to be released: Contemporary Psychodrama: New Approaches to Theory and Technique (2004, Brunner-Routledge) in English.
Email to: jfonseca@nw.com.br
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  Pierre J. FONTAINE, MD. Prof. emeritus of Child & Family Psychiatry, Fac. Psychology, Univ. of Louvain. (Belgium). Psychodramatist trained by Anne Ancelin Schützenberger since 1958 and later also by Dean and Doreen Elefthery (1967). Founded (1963)  and directed the psychodrama training school La Verveine Brussels. Specialities :psychodrama training and psychodrama with the handicapped. Co-founder and vice-president of the Federation of European Psychodrama Training Organisations (FEPTO)   Main recent publications  P. Fontaine (Ed) Psychodrama Training . A European View ; and a chapter  "Le Psychodrame" in Elkaïm M. (Ed) (2003) A quel psy se vouer. Psychanalyses, psychothérapies : les principales approches. Paris, Seuil   Languages : french, english, dutch, german. E-mail : pierre.fontaine@psp.ucl.ac.be 
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  Kevin Franklin, PhD, TEP - Director of the Western Institute of Psychodrama Inc. in Perth.  Author of a recent book on sexualpreference.


 
 

  Jutta Fuerst, a major trainer of psychodrama in Austria. 


 

 Mauricio Gasseau, a psychodrama trainer in northern Italy who also integrates the concepts of Jung's Analytical Psychology.



 
 
  

Dr. Friedel Geisler is a psychodrama trainer within the PIfE (Psychodrama Institut fur Europa), working in Solingen, Germany. She does outpatient counseling and, because of her background in theology, also does pastoral counseling. She is the director of the Association of Holistic Psychotherapy email: Friedel.Geisler@t-online.de                                                                                                                                        




   
 Heinz Werner Gessmann
 
Hans-Werner Gessmann, Ph.D.,  Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist, Director of the Psychotherapeutic Institute Burg Bergerhausen, one of the oldest psychodrama institutes in Germany. Chairperson
 of the European Society of Humanistic Psychodrama and Education. He has published several books and teaching films about Humanistic Psychodrama and is publisher of the International Journal of Humanistic Psychodrama since 1995.  Email:
info@pib-zentrum.de   Website: http://fortbildung.pib-zentrum.de/116.0.html