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Tribute to Maria McCormick

CV:  Hector Sabelli

CV:  Linnea Carlson- Sabelli

CV:  Louis Kauffman

CV:  Gerald Thomas

Papers for JASS journal

Recent Conference papers and power point presentations

 

Draft of a new book on social action

  

SOCIATRY

 

Sociatry: psychotherapy for society is an upcoming special issue of The Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry, edited by Thomas Treadwell.

 

1. Creative Method: updating Moreno ’s theory by H. Sabelli.

Moreno ’s theory of creativity is supported by mathematical, physical, biological, economic and clinical studies. Natural and human processes are creative, not determined, random or chaotic. At all levels of organization, creativity results from action (physical and mental), opposition (e.g. electrical charge, sex, role reversal with the opposite), and spontaneous change and conservation. Social processes are co-determined by physical processes (environmental and physiological) that have priority (greater energy, duration and urgency) and psychological processes (emotions, beliefs, knowledge) that have supremacy. See http://creativebios.com, and multiple references therein.  

 

2. Sociopathology by H. Sabelli.

Social pathology is common and largely unexplored. Examples: 1930s depression, Nazism, and messianic communism; 1990s stock market mania; 2000s bombings (suicidal, from air, “depleted” uranium), torture, religious fundamentalisms. Psychopaths often achieve positions of power (Nero, Caligula, Hitler, contemporary examples). Major sociopathology emerges from paraconsciousness: paranoid-like behavior observed in populations in conflict: feeling innocent (we are angels) and seeing the others as evil. Paraconsciousness leads to the rise of sociopaths to positions of power.

 

3. Sociotherapy by H. Sabelli.

Sociatry is a psychotherapeutic approach with multiple potential applications: (1) clinical (dealing with individual psychopathology arising from bad education and psychology; e.g. diagnosis of a mother as schizophrenogenic); (2) educational (health and mental health as core of high school education); (3) scientific (guiding scientific research towards plausible and useful goals; e.g. study biological bases of sociality rather than selfish genes); (4) economic and environmental (policies based on long range, collective and individual, interests of persons  rather than the short range profit of a minority); and (5) sociopolitical (e.g. Moreno’s theatrical enacting of the news; incorporating historical knowledge and psychological insight in education and in individual and group therapies to prevent paraconsciousness).

 

·         Biological Priority and Psychological Supremacy, a New Integrative Paradigm Derived from Process Theory. American Journal of Psychiatry 146 1541-1551, 1989, by H. Sabelli and L. Carlson-Sabelli.

·         Personalization: A New Vision for the Millennium.  Chicago , IL :  Society for the Advancement of Clinical Philosophy (SACP), 1991, by Sabelli, H.  and J. Synnestvedt 

·         Sociometry and Sociodynamics.  In Psychodrama since Moreno : Innovations in theory and practice. Karp, Watson and Holmes, Editors, 1994, by L. Carlson-Sabelli, H. Sabelli and A. Hale.

·         Dynamics and psychodynamics. Process Foundations of Psychology. Journal of Mind and Behavior 18: 305-334, 1997. by H. Sabelli, H., L. Carlson-Sabelli, M. Patel and A. Sugerman.

·       Bios. A Study of Creation, World Scientific, 2005,  by H. Sabelli, with contributions by L. Kauffman, L. Carlson-Sabelli, A. Sugerman, M. Patel, J. Messer, and L. Kovacevic

·         If Not Us, Then Who. Scientific Bases for Social Action (draft) by H. Sabelli.

 

SOCIATRY

The goal of psychotherapy is the treatment of the whole of mankind. Jacob Moreno

The individual is otherwise utterly helpless in a world of vast armies and global corporations. 

Sociatry: Theory and Therapy

Social dimensions of personal identity
Moreno’s therapeutic methods
1. ACTION: AGE  (growing up and growing old)
1. ACT (spontaneity)
2. OPPOSITION: SEX
2. SELF AND OTHER: ROLE REVERSAL, GROUP THERAPY
3. CREATION of culture, knowledge, nationality, myths, and delusions (psychotic, religious)
3. CREATE AND CONSERVE (cultural conserve)
 

Sociatry: Theory

Physics and Biology
Economics and Psychology
Action, not static, and same for physical  & mental processes
Action, not static or only mental 
Opposition: positive and negative electrical charge; symbiosis and competition; branching (trees, neurons, arteries)
Positive and negative interactions, not only competition and conflict
Creative (not determined):
Creation of species in evolution
Creative heart-like  patterns in the atom and the distribution of galaxies. (Complexity 2006. Sabelli and Kovacevic.)
Creative: heart-like  patterns in the price of oil and in music. (In contrast to economic, historical and psychological determinism.)
 

Sociatry: Diagnostic

 

Illness in contemporary society

(1) No action: apathy, despair.
(2) Antagonistic opposition: Paraconsciousness: “we” are innocent angels and “they” are the axis of evil.
(3) Destructive instead of creative: suicidal rage (terrorists, end-of the-world theology), science devoted to military goals. Sociopaths in power. 
 

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Last update: October 24, 2006