{"id":2946,"date":"2018-07-09T20:58:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2018-07-09T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T04:58:52","slug":"exploratory-drama-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"Exploratory Drama for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be time to confirm some rapprochement among drama therapy (all varieties, and there are several!), psychodrama (several varieties), and other arts \u201ctherapies\u201d\u2014and more that their being considered together, and consider now how <em>they do not have to be therapeutic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1950s some people partook of psychoanalysis because it was fashion-able, not because they were seeking relief from symptoms. For them, exploring depth psychology is more of a frontier than a \u201ctherapy\u201d! Healthy people might enjoy probing the corners of their minds.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1960s and \u201870s mind-explorations was done with psychedelics such as lysergic acid diethylamide&#8212;widely known as LSD. What indeed is with the mind? It\u2019s multi-dimensional\u2014that\u2019s for sure\u2014and we hardly know what that even means!<\/p>\n<p>Now there are far-out dramas or psychodramas, probing the fantasized past in Bibliodrama, and the fantasized present. Whatever the mind creates, there is meaning to be gained, whether or not it \u201creally\u201d happened (in our three-dimen-sional reality, which is distinctly time-bound and subject to the laws of physics.&#160; It\u2019s also known as the \u201conly\u201d reality&#8212;but that may change!). Indeed, whether we \u201cmake it all up\u201d or it \u201creally\u201d happens, there are lessons to be learned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be time to confirm some rapprochement among drama therapy (all varieties, and there are several!), psychodrama (several varieties), and other arts \u201ctherapies\u201d\u2014and more that their being considered together, and consider now how they do not have to be therapeutic. In the mid-1950s some people partook of psychoanalysis because it was fashion-able, not because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychodrama","category-psychology","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946"}],"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=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}