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Let's try to build an international network in psychodrama. Already there are some threads in this process: The International Association for Group Psychotherapy-Psychodrama Section has a listserve that includes also people who may not be members of the IAGP; there is a listserve, "grouptalk," centered in the United States, that also has many people from all over who participate. I think there may be (or have been) some other networks, such as one in Spanish.

I have had on my website some pages that note the developments happening in psychodrama internationally, and before that, listed events in our own national (ASGPP) "Psychodrama Network News." Now with the continuing expansion of the internet, there is an opportunity to network further. I've recently added some items that had been previously published only in the American newsletter...

       See  Past International Psychodrama News webpages

Another effort has been made in the past in our Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry-titled (before around 1971) simply "Group Psychotherapy"-the journal Moreno founded around 1945. It had some issues devoted to "international developments." One of the advantages to this kind of format is that it goes in "hard copy" to many university libraries. The point is to make available to researchers, those who might be a little interested in psychodrama and want to know more, how the field is expanding and being used all over the world.

Please make an effort to find someone in your country-perhaps you-or perhaps a few of you- who will then write at least 3000 words about how psychodrama is operating in your country or region. Here are some of the kinds of questions to ask:

1. Estimate the number of people using psychodrama in your area. Develop this estimate by considering how many people attended your last local conference on psychodrama or who showed interest especially in psychodrama at your last local conference on group therapy or psychotherapy in general. If you have one or more psychodrama organizations, or training institutes, please estimate the number of people involved in those.

You might want to differentiate the number of professionals involved who have just dabbled in psychodrama and then gone on to use the methods in their work, but don't identify themselves primarily as psychodramatists. (The cut-off might be those with less than, say, 200 hours of exposure.) Then there are those with more than 200 hours, serious students and those who have graduated. Note also those numbers who are fully certified as practitioners and teachers. The idea is to give some sense of the size of the field in your country-50, 200, more?

2. If you have an organization, what is its name, initials, and do you have professional conferences? How often? When is the next one? Do you have a newsletter and/or a journal? What is its name? Does the organization have a website? What is it?

(Try to have something-even a little-describing this information-in English on your website.)

3. Please list some of the main books you use-those translated from other languages, and those written by people there in your own language. Full citations for our international bibliography would be appreciated: Lastname, firstname. (Year of publication). Title of book. City and country of publisher: Name of publishing house.

4. A small review of the history of psychodrama in your country would be nice, who the pioneers and early trainers were.

5. Mention a few trainers and institutes and their email addresses, and note especially those who would be willing to network internationally.

6. Note various applications of psychodrama in your area. In some regions, psychodrama is used more in the schools, in other areas, in trauma work or prisons, or as aids in consultations in business and organizational development. The idea is to both give some international recognition to those pioneering new approaches in your region and to help the world community enjoy and be inspired by innovations elsewhere.

7. Please visit my webpages and review what is said about your country. Help me edit those items, correct email addresses that (1) no longer are valid, because they've been changed; (2) the person no longer wants to be listed on this website or contacted. Do likewise for changing institute names, email or postal addresses and website urls (a u r l is a website address), or historical errors. Events that are past or no longer significant, help me edit out. This might also become the basis for your written paper about developments in your country.

8. We continue to seek translations of articles, and ideally, if they can be scanned on or sent in digitized format, we could put them on the web somewhere. On this website if nowhere else. Translate from English to other languages, or other languages into English. (Feel free to take my papers on this website and translate to other languages.)

9. Please browse my website and link to the various pages there, especially about history of group psychotherapy, photographs of Moreno and other leaders in the field, books available in psychodrama and drama therapy, and various other papers on psychodrama.

10. Please send me photographs of leaders in psychodrama in your field along with about 40 word captions. Note if you want your email address listed.