Psychodrama workshops are getting severely beaten by various evidence-based workshops. A flyer arrived recently highlighting evidence-based trauma treatments and interventions; a two-day, 14 hour, workshop for $400. At the end of the two days the “seminar meets the education requirement…

http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/15807/Research%20Report%20%28PDF%29.pdf?sequence=2   a research project from the University of Witwatersrand in S Africa regarding use of role play to facilitate disclosures in sexual, sensitive stories

http://www.ted.com/talks/kare_anderson_be_an_opportunity_maker?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2014-11-07&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button

This TED talk is lovely and its author has a book called Son of a Terrorist.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197455610001358 http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/gpr/16/1/70/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745561400032X http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11620-014-0225-1 These are abstracts. If you are keen to see the articles in full, email me. ericahollander@comcast.net   If the link does not function, copy and paste address into your browser.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/why-doctors-need-stories/?_php=true&_type=blogs&src=me&ref=general&_r=0an article on the necessary relationship between standard evidence based practice and narratives such as the kind of work Psychodramatists do ordinarily.

Here’s a link to a very short article on epi-mapping: Epistemic mapping. Meaning/knowledge mapping.

Science shows that expressive writing improves us. Imagine what Psychodrama can do. http://mic.com/articles/98348/science-shows-writers-have-a-serious-advantage-over-the-rest-of-us

A TED talk on the science of social connection is to be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlXJnlmAXt0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUzno-z2lWDjrjU9J3Xd-L3Q   The peer reviewed article  on which the TED talk above is based can be found at http://ccare.stanford.edu/article/social-connection-and-compassion-important-predictors-of-health-and-well-being/   and the references on which the article…

June Hare’s article on this topic is at http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/harestorypaper.pdf