Of late I realize that I have transcended therapeutic role playing\u2014psychodrama, drama therapy, etc.\u2014and moved towards thinking that all of this is beyond therapy. It applies also in wrestling with the challenges of re-visioning new fields, re-visioning how to develop skills.<\/p>\n
I have left medicine, left psychiatry, left the whole medical model where some people are patients, and as such, sick; other people know what\u2019s not-sick and offer to \u201chelp\u201d\u2014or are even charged with imposing on patients who are deemed crazy-sick.<\/p>\n
But I’ve left my role as a doctor and my major role is promoting the idea that role playing, simulations, enacting, practice, is about many things quite beyond "therapy"—doing something for \/ to people who are \/ consider themselves \/ are considered by others as "sick". But I’m aware that we have a whole vehicle that needs to be taken out of the medical model (or in part, should not be confined to just treatment), and recognized that enactment, reality practice, etc. belongs to a wide range of complex skills.<\/p>\n
Top generals and people of that rank know that situations are highly complex, and as such, simulations are needed\u2014because highly complex situations are an order of magnitude or two beyond merely complex events. People who we thought \u201cshould\u201d know are recognized as not being smart enough to anticipate all eventualities\u2014and they know this. This fact is again a whole order of magnitude different!<\/p>\n
Some things are so very complicated that no human being can \u201cknow\u201d! So to cope, simulations minimize losses. For the military, \u201cwar games.\u201d For smaller problems that are equally problematic, other simulations. Even better, enhancing them by doubling or asides demonstrates what’s going on in the mind of the actor. That is, enhanced simulations is a good training tool beyond the medical model, beyond the goal of trying to "fix" people. This is the latest inspiration, or \u201cbug in my bonnet.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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