{"id":3019,"date":"2020-08-04T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:16:37","slug":"download-my-books-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"Download My Books for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have written a number of books about the use of play and spontaneity in both therapeutic and non-therapeutic settings, including my newest work, <a href=\"http:\/\/actionexplorations.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Action Explorations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it has been difficult for some people to find copies of some of my older books, especially in non-US markets. Well, no longer! On the occasion of my 82nd birthday tomorrow, I am releasing three of my books as downloadable scanned PDF files:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2YAQhGV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acting-In: Practical Applications of Psychodramatic Methods<\/a> (Third Edition; 65 MB PDF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GLGjrT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foundations of Psychodrama &nbsp;History, Drama, and Practice<\/a> (Fourth Edition; 88 MB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2yDNvSs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Art of Play: Helping Adults Reclaim Imagination and Spontaneity<\/a> (co-authored with my wife, Allee Blatner; 41 MB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Update, Sept 2025:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/48jm1Ue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Action Explorations<\/a> (First edition; 4.5 MB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/books\/Interactive-Improvisational-Drama_AdamBlatner_416p_9780595417506_B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interactive and Improvisational Drama<\/a> (First edition; 70 MB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal note:<\/strong> I am specifically not &#8220;open-sourcing&#8221; these; I still retain the copyright in all three works. You may download and use these under the Creative Commons &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a>&#8221; license. For example, you may translate or excerpt all or part of these books, but you may not sell that work (it has to also be freely available under Creative Commons).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have questions about the books, please feel free to contact me at info@blatner.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m giving away five of my books for free as PDF downloads: including Foundations of Psychodrama, Acting In, and The Art of Play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-psychodrama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}