Guest guest Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 dear community of creative arts therapists (and particularly drama therapists) - before everyone takes off for their summer vacation, i would like to put a question out there. i am a drama therapist and been practicing therapeutic work at different settings for a few years now. i am about to begin PhD studies in neuro-psychology (this is purely a research oriented, " rats-involved " program, not clinical/therapeutic). my goal is of course to eventually integrate the fields and further explore issues that were raised in my therapeutic work, but from physiological perspective. i would like to hear from people who have taken a similar path about their experience. i was wondering if you found the " hard-core, quantitative research " to contribute to your therapeutic thinking or whether you actually found it to interfere with it. i would also like to learn whether you were able to integrate the CAT thinking into your research work and in what way (particularly as the program and the labs are in a non-CAT, Experimental Psychology environment) also, i know there are some people who have taken the opposite path - moving from physiology/cognitive psych/med and such, into the creative arts therapies. i would love to hear from you as well on how these fields can come together, either in work or in research. thank you and have a wonderful summer, dana -- " Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? " Oliver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 You might contact Kate Cook at Southwestern University in New Mexico. She is a psychodramatist who presented at our national conference on neuro psych and action methods. I think her email address is katecook@... CAT and neuropsych dear community of creative arts therapists (and particularly drama therapists) - before everyone takes off for their summer vacation, i would like to put a question out there. i am a drama therapist and been practicing therapeutic work at different settings for a few years now. i am about to begin PhD studies in neuro-psychology (this is purely a research oriented, "rats-involved" program, not clinical/therapeutic). my goal is of course to eventually integrate the fields and further explore issues that were raised in my therapeutic work, but from physiological perspective. i would like to hear from people who have taken a similar path about their experience. i was wondering if you found the "hard-core, quantitative research" to contribute to your therapeutic thinking or whether you actually found it to interfere with it. i would also like to learn whether you were able to integrate the CAT thinking into your research work and in what way (particularly as the program and the labs are in a non-CAT, Experimental Psychology environment) also, i know there are some people who have taken the opposite path - moving from physiology/cognitive psych/med and such, into the creative arts therapies. i would love to hear from you as well on how these fields can come together, either in work or in research. thank you and have a wonderful summer, dana -- "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Oliver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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