{"id":2883,"date":"2018-05-10T19:16:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T03:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T04:47:23","slug":"change-psychodrama-to-action-explorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"Change &ldquo;Psychodrama&rdquo; to &ldquo;Action Explorations&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I thought about it for a long time, I suggest that we change the name of what we do from psychodrama to <strong><em>action explorations<\/em><\/strong>. The reasons are these:    <br \/>&#160; 1. The word \u201cpsychodrama\u201d&#8212;or, indeed, any word with \u201cpsycho\u201d in it, brings up associations to psychotic, psychoneurotic, psychopathic, psychological, \u201cpsycho,\u201d psychoanalytic, intrusive, and redolent of all the cartoons that picture bearded middle-aged men with weird patients on couches.    <br \/>&#160; 2. The word \u201cdrama\u201d is emotionally heightened, tainted by&#160; being&#160; over-eotional. The word used to be just something enacted. It could be funny. But now the word has changed meanings, to emotionally laden, \u201cheavy.\u201d    <br \/> 3. Many psychodramas are also sociodramas, and many overap with role playing.    <br \/>&#160; 4. It is even harder to apply to law or education or other non-medical or non-clinical settings.    <br \/>&#160; 5. It is sometimes useful for individuals or couples.    <br \/> &#8230;&#8230;Other reasons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I thought about it for a long time, I suggest that we change the name of what we do from psychodrama to action explorations. The reasons are these: &#160; 1. The word \u201cpsychodrama\u201d&#8212;or, indeed, any word with \u201cpsycho\u201d in it, brings up associations to psychotic, psychoneurotic, psychopathic, psychological, \u201cpsycho,\u201d psychoanalytic, intrusive, and redolent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}