Dutch psychodrama association – site.
American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) Home Page
American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP)Home Page
I want this link handy. Has an incredible amt of info, links to GroupTalk etc.
Later: 06/17/2007
Editing this old psyberspace stuff – and the link still works!
Ritual, virtual, sacred space
Ancient Strategies in Contemporary Art by Deni DeBon ©
Dominique Mazeaud began a project called “The Great Cleansing of the Rio Grande,” in 1987. Once a month, on the same day each month, like clockwork she went to the Rio Grande river, near her home, and removed garbage out of the river. Part of her work involved keeping a diary. Sometimes the diary was documentation of the day’s events and other times she wrote “prayers” or poems about her ritual.12 Though Mazeaud is not making a grand ecological impact, her art reaches out through compassion, for one day a month she coexists with the river. Her ritual is personal and usually involves herself, and the people who pass by. Personal rituals work to reclaim one’s own identity, which cannot be found in today’s industrial culture. There is a longing to obtain an intrinsic sense of identity within the individual. Artists are turning to interactive processes which often seem simple and down to earth, working towards finding a sense of function within the world which also heightens the sense of self. Within the current traditions, there is little understanding of ritual art forms. In Mazeaud’s piece, her diary is the only commodity available. The function of the work is the interaction between artist and subject, the ending result is only known to the artist
I am adding this as it follows up on the Suzi Gablik item below. There are some important elements here.
Ritual
prayers
diary
These are the things that move us into the virtual, and that is where the gods are.
Virtual and ritual – connected?
Stuff that dreams are made of
Last line from the JPB item linked before:
And finally, in the years to come, most human exchange will be virtual rather than physical, consisting not of stuff but the stuff of which dreams are made. Our future business will be conducted in a world made more of verbs than nouns.
Stuff that dreams are made of… there is the clue… to psyberspace.
BUT… Information is as much a real product as material goods – it arises not only out of dreams but hard work. I think it un-psychological to not see the real thing and then to see into it imaginatively. It is particularly skewed to selectively imagine.
That is central to my whole way of doing therapy. It goes back to the “seduction theory”. Must dig up an article I wrote on that. To put it simply: just because it really happened does not mean we should neglect our dreams.
One thing I loved about this article is the opening quote from Jefferson. JPB certainly found the right bit to quote.
New Zealand Herald item
New Zealand News – – Online Therapy
“Another local online therapist is Kennedy’s mate, psychotherapist Walter Logeman, who started up Psybernet, a site dedicated to “exploring the psyche in cyberspace”.
Barry says wise things and I am also in the news!
See me here: http://www.psybernet.co.nz
Psychodrama
PSYCHODRAMA RELATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH INDEX
Saturday, 1 November, 2008
dead
However I went to the wayback machine and retrieved it & put a copy here.
Also found these:
Psychotherapist.co.nz
Online Psychotherapy with Walter Logeman
This will soon not be here but have a new URL
Much later: Friday, 15 January, 2010
Of course it is here, and this will remain the main page: http://www.psybernet.co.nz
I must have thought I’d get that URL, but then couldn’t! Looks like no-one is really using it. I’d still like it!
Though my Walter Logeman site is useful too.