It\u2019s time for noting that the arts—especially drama\u2014can offer simulations—which is doing but yet not doing, like kids at sociodramatic play—exploring so many dimensions. What would I sound like if I talked this way? Moved this way? No, moved THIS way? Try it out, adjust it. It’s a far more multi-modal experiment.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time also for noting that it’s not "just for therapy," but for everyone! Many arts therapists know this implicitly but t needs to be stated explicitly. In fact, relatively healthy people make better use of playing it out, trying it out, than sicker people! <\/p>\n
It\u2019s time for a move into \u201cfuller living.\u201d That may become a title of a paper! Maybe a whole magazine! We all could benefit from "fuller" living. We don’t need it—we’re okay. But that’s like saying we don’t NEED a trip to Disneyland.<\/p>\n
It’s what J. L. Moreno, M.D., the inventor of psychodrama, to which I have devoted some of my life\u2019s energies, what Moreno meant by his term, "surplus" reality. What a radical idea, meta-physically! We are moving into utilizing the space and time around us, using the arts, to live bigger lives than we thought we could.<\/p>\n
We fantasized, but drama lets us experience, just a little bit. That’s good! People played with us and made it more. For example, I live with other alter egos, as does my wife—and "we" partake of correspondingly more "life"—even if it’s "just pretend" than most people. Larger than life is the goal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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