We have in fact been enlarging our awareness of what\u2019s happening through international news, the internet, astronomy, microscopy, imaging, travel writing, etc. Now I want to make a category for it! The idea that we can enlarge our lives through what was psychodrama\u2014I call using the method for fun and not psycho-therapy \u201caction explorations\u201d\u2014is here presented. It need not be \u201cfor\u201d any worthy purpose other than fun or mind-expansion.<\/p>\n
One may enact or talk about or merely fantasize events that never happen, or only partially happen, events that were thought, planned, dreamed. For various reasons these events were not \u201csolid\u201d or concrete enough to be imagined or thought to have happened in reality. Yet they, too, can be given a \u201cstage\u201d to happen\u2014a psycho-dramatic stage.<\/p>\n
I have written about psychodrama, several books on this or related topics. I have dared to rename non-therapeutic psychodrama as \u201caction explorations\u201d so that imagined experiences with no<\/em><\/strong> \u201ctherapeutic\u201d function can become part of life. (It\u2019s too good for just patients!) Indeed, it\u2019s an adult form of pretend play, like cosplay (costumed-play), Why should only kids have all the fun? Call it \u201clife enlargement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have in fact been enlarging our awareness of what\u2019s happening through international news, the internet, astronomy, microscopy, imaging, travel writing, etc. Now I want to make a category for it! The idea that we can enlarge our lives through what was psychodrama\u2014I call using the method for fun and not psycho-therapy \u201caction explorations\u201d\u2014is here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,4,26,23,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-explorations","category-psychodrama","category-psychology","category-whassup","category-world-of-almost-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}