By Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP

Eve Ensler, the celebrated U.S. playwright, author of the famed The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, an international movement to stop violence against women and girls, has a new book titled The Apology.

She wrote The Apology from the perspective of her father who abused her physically and sexually throughout her childhood. He never apologized for his actions before his death. She says she wrote the book because she needed to hear him apologize.

She recognizes that this apology was important to her, although it may not be as important to other survivors of abuse.  In an interview with The Huffington Post, she says:

By Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP

The 77th psychodrama conference is history. A team of enthusiastic organizers are all in as it plans for the 78th conference of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama in April 2020 in Schaumberg, Ill.

But first, it might be important to assess where psychodrama is and what is happening in the field as its member organization moves toward the next year of its conference and many more years as a method that focuses in improvisational dramatization of problems in search of solutions.

Conferences typically build and strengthen community among the expressive therapies practitioners and introduce interested newcomers to the modality. They also can be good indicators of the health of an organization, give a quick snapshot of what’s trending in the field, and inspire attendees to return home with new ideas.

Here are my top eight takeaways at this moment in 2019, particularly with the recent conference that took place on May 2-5, plus some other notes: