Watch this Ted talk. It’s a lot like psychodrama. http://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_the_danger_of_silence?

Articles on using psychodrama and role play to teach clinicians how to break bad news
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/622003

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691400083X
This is the web address for an open access article on the positive relationship between emotional intelligence and generalized self determination, or what psychodramatists might call “act hunger”. The authors assert that the 2 are linked, and both contribute to psychological well being.
Personality and Individual Differences
Volume 64, July 2014, Pages 1–6

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Internalizing emotions: Self-determination as an antecedent of emotional intelligence
Dominique Perreaulta, Lisa Maskb, Melinda Morgana, Céline M. Blancharda, ,
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DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.056
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Open Access
Highlights
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Emotional intelligence (EI) is important for psychological well-being (PWB).
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We examine general self-determination (GSD) as an antecedent of EI.
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Results indicate that GSD promotes greater PWB though increased EI.
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Some EI abilities are more important for PWB than others.
Abstract
An extensive body of literature indicates that people differ in the extent to which they attend to, process, and regulate emotions. The present research sought to build on this knowledge by examining whether general self-determination (GSD) could account for individual variation in emotional intelligence (EI) and psychological well-being (PWB). A simple and multiple mediation model using bootstrap analyses tested these relationships in a sample of students (Study 1, N = 283) and workers (Study 2, N = 265). Results supported the hypothesized mediating role of EI in the relationship between GSD and PWB across both studies. When the inter-related facets of EI were considerately separately, indirect effects emerged for mood regulation/optimism and social skills across both studies as well as for utilization of emotions, albeit negatively, in Study 2. Our findings support and extend past work on the antecedents of EI and have important implications for human functioning across a variety of settings.

What do we mean by “research”? Is research in Psychodrama possible or worth doing? I see things published under the heading “research” or “theory and research” that do not meet my definitions of research or theory. Some argue that research in Psychodrama is not possible because the subject is too complex and varied. Or too subjective. I have heard it argued that Moreno did all the research we will ever need. Others have objected to even trying to develop Evidence Based Practices in our field. In my view, we need them.
This listserv exists in an effort to encourage new research in Psychodrama and related fields, and in the belief that it can and should be done. No doubt others have different definitions for research. It might be worth talking about what each of us means. If your view is different, please share it.
First, although surely individuals can explore their own interior lives to great advantage, those investigations are not what I understand by “research.” Research is something offered for social purposes, for expanding general knowledge and understanding. To achieve that kind of growth, it has to have some wider than individual application and therefore has to be arrived at by agreed upon means.
Then, what is involved? Theories explain or predict. A theory offers a coherent group of general propositions used to explain a class of phenomena. Research is a diligent, systematic inquiry to discover or revise facts, theories or applications.
A research project begins with a specific problem or research question: a precise statement of what knowledge is sought and why. Its method is a plan or design for the study, describing how the knowledge is to be (or has been) gained. Results are precise statements of what knowledge was in fact gained in the project. (Williams, Reasoning with Statistics, 1992.)
Validity in research refers to the measure used being well suited to answer and illuminate the question asked. Reliability refers to consistency, to another investigator’s ability to replicate the study described and arrive at similar findings.

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An article in the Times Digest  (NY Times online service)  about a week ago discussed a new study that is looking at what the effect of making therapists’ notes from group therapy sessions available to the participants in the groups.  The idea is to increase transparency, trust, communication,  and perhaps to provide a sense of progress being made.  This study involves 700 patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, and the notes are put up online within a few days of the session.

The new online journal E Journal of Psychotherapy Research has an article from Annalisa Versari on the use of psychodrama in a group containing both perpetrators and victims over a span of 15 sessions. You can find the article at this website:http://psychotherapyjournal.org/analytic-psychodrama-for-overcoming-interpersonal-violence-a-mixed-group-of-victims-and-perpetrators/ date June 4, 2014.

http://www.ted.com/talks/uri_alon_why_truly_innovative_science_demands_a_leap_into_the_unknown?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2014-06-13&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=bottom_left_button

This TED talk should be an encouragement to all who fear that, as psychodramatists, they cannot be serious scientists.