Acting-In: Practical Applications of Psychodrama Methods

This revised third edition of the text, an introduction to psychodrama, now includes developments in theory and technique. Illustrated throughout with case examples, it presents the essentials of psychodrama and considers traditional psychotherapy approaches, educational settings and groupwork.

Adam Blatner, M.D., T.E.P., is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a certified trainer of psychodrama, and the author of numerous books, chapters, and articles on psychodrama and related methods. He has become internationally recognized as a teacher and scholar, recently receiving the David Kipper Scholars Award of the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1959 and his M.D. from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco in 1963. his specialty training included a residency in adult and child psychiatry at the Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto and a fellowship in child and family psychiatry at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Blatner then served as the medical director of the child psychiatry division of the U.S. Air Force regional hospital in England. On returning to California in 1972 he began private practice in the San Francisco Bay area. Since then he has been on the staff of the Brown Schools in Texas, the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, and more recently was on the faculty of the University of Louisville (Kentucky) School of Medicine, where he attained the rank of Associate Professor. At present he is on the clinical faculty of the Austin Psychiatric Residency Program and is consulting, writing and teaching in Austin, Texas.