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OUR TWO CENTS
- Using Action Methods to Counter Social Isolation and Shame among Gay Men (with John Olesen and Jean Campbell) - a practical (and fun) application of sociometry and psychodrama teechniques.
- Self, Medicated - a perspective on the contemporary American opiate epidemic and other prescription drug abuse.
- Alcoholics Anonymous: Still Sober after 75 Years - on the occasion of AA's 75th anniversary, a look back at Bill Wilson's commemoration of AA's 25th anniversary
TRUSTED COLLEAGUES
- Jean Campbell, psychodrama training and workshop facilitator for families dealing with addictions (North County San Diego, California)
- Christina Huxford, psychodrama facilitator, somatic/trauma therapist (Orange County, California)
- John Olesen, psychodrama trainer, improvisational theater troupe member (Forestville, California; Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Jim Tracy, interventionist, case manager and facilitator of weekend workshops for families dealing with addictions (Rancho Mirage, California)
- Larry Kessler, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner also trained in NARM, ISP, Touch Skills Bodywork, and NLP (Long Beach, California)
- Maria Mellano, therapist and trainer specializing in psychodrama and internal family systems (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Melinda Cornish, psychodrama practitioner and trainer (Apex, North Carolina)
- Steve Kopp, psychodrama practitioner and trainer (Silver Spring, Maryland)
- Phoebe Atkinson, psychodrama practitioner and trainer, coach, positive psychology educator (New York City)
ORGANIZATIONS
- The Action Institute of California - psychodrama and Psychodramatic Bodywork training, consultation, family recovery weekends
- American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP) - sponsors annual psychodrama conference and journal
- American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy (ABE) - administers the process for certifying psychodrama practitioners and trainers
- Somatic Experiencing Training Institute (SETI) - provides training and membership services for SE practitioners
- Rising Roads Recovery - extended care treatment program in Fountain Valley, California, specializing in serving women with a history of trauma and addictions
- Psychodrama Training Associates - psychodrama training workshops in New Jersey and Florida
STANDOUT BOOKS
- David Wallin, Attachment in Psychotherapy
- Philip Flores, Addiction as an Attachment Disorder
- Patricia DeYoung, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame
- Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project
- The Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy Volume 65, Number 1(A): Zerka T. Moreno Edition 2017
- Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection and Experiencing Spirituality
- Archer Voxx, The Five Keys: 12 Step Recovery Without A God
- Marya Hornbacher, Waiting
- Peter Levine, In an Unspoken Voice
- Neil Steinberg, Out of the Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life: A Novel
- Jane Smiley, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga [Some Luck, Early Warning, Golden Age]
- Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels
- Alan Downs, The Velvet Rage
- Vivian Barnett Brown, Through a Trauma Lens: Transforming Health and Behavioral Health Systems [coming soon to a bookseller near you]
PODCASTS
Survival tools for the California interstate highway system (RSS feeds are included in case, like me, you are an iTunes abstainer):
- Fresh Air with Terry Gross (no relation): npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=381444908
- WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/
- The Trauma Therapist with Guy Macpherson: thetraumatherapist.libsyn.com/rss
- Startup: feeds.gimletmedia.com/hearstartup
- Planet Money: npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289
- 99% Invisible with Roman Mars: feeds.99percentinvisible.org/99percentinvisible
- This American Life with Ira Glass: feed.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast
- How I Built This with Guy Raz: npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510313
- Shrink Rap Radio with David Van Nuys: feeds.feedburner.com/ShrinkRapRadio-APsychologyTalkAndInterviewShow
- Brain Science with Ginger Campbell: brainsciencepodcast.libsyn.com/rss
- AA Beyond Belief: aaeyondbelief.com/feed/podcast/
- Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell: (http://feeds.feedburner.com/RevisionistHistory)