It is interesting to think about what play actually is, and how it might be researched further. Play is of course central to Moreno’s thinking. Here is an article on the theory of play from another important thinker. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1525/aa.1971.73.1.02a00040/asset/aa.1971.73.1.02a00040.pdf?v=1&t=hu2s0pjw&s=4f92198c998d2441a969b33f4d1385333fb719dc

Some of you will recognize this video from Dan Tomasulo’s talk at ASGPP’s annual conference. It suggests that we have a lot to share. Paul Zak on the Future of Storytelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHeqQAKHh3M

Finding Love Later My name is Kathy Norgard. I live in a small mountain town in Colorado. After my husband died, I thought it would be my dog and me for the rest of the days. Unexpectedly, I met a…

Dan Tomasulo proposes positive stories as therapeutic interventions and his article is available online at http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/50533/psych2012123116562691-29.pdf

During the recent ASGPP conference a question struck me.  The psychodrama community likes to come together to enact what is up for us.  That is different from what goes on at many other professional conferences I have attended such as…

http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/ppquestionnaires.htm lists instruments for researchers that the positive psychology program at U of Pennsylvania has put together.

Barbara Frederickson of the University of North Carolina works on positivity.  You can find her at http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications.html.  The site includes a number of her papers on her research on the topic of how positive emotional states serve long term well…

Following  the ASGPP conference program for 2014,  you may be interested in this material:  Carol Dweck, PhD, from Stanford  offers many papers online at her Stanford Psychology Department webpage https://www.stanford.edu/dept/psychology/cgi-bin/drupalm/cdweck MINDSET   http://mindsetonline.com BRAINOLOGY  http://www.brainology.us/ Her Research Summary: My work bridges developmental…

I am just back from the annual ASGPP conference on group psychotherapy and psychodrama. I had the feeling many of the participants in the conference experienced something that might be called “moral hunger”, so this article may be of interest.…