Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeftRadio.

On today's episode I have my friend Walter Loganman who worked as a social worker, as a psychologist,

as a psychiatrist throughout his life and many other jobs as well and wanted to come

on and talk about the psychotherapist, psychosocialologist and founder of psychodrama Jacob Levy

and Marano.

So we talk about the works of Marano, we talk about what psychodrama is, we talk about

the overlap perhaps between some of these methods found in psychodrama and the methods within

Marxism, how theory and practice exist in both for example, how there's a communal aspect

to Marano's psychodrama that might not be found in other areas of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

And it's just a really fascinating conversation with somebody who's lived a very interesting

life, somebody born in Europe during World War II whose parents were deeply impacted by

the traumas of that world event and who later became a communist and a Marxist and sort

of, you know, tries to weave together insights from the revolutionary Marxist tradition and

the psychoanalytic psychodramatic tradition as well.

So you know, very interesting, fascinating conversation with somebody who's lived a

very rich life and the wisdom and the experience certainly come out in this conversation.

So without further ado, here's my conversation with Walter Loganman about psychodrama and

the work of Jacob L. Marano.

Enjoy.

I'm Walter Loganman and thank you for hosting me on this show that's wonderful.

I'm from Christchurch, New Zealand. I'm a psychotherapist and I'm getting on.

I'm semi-retired, but I continue to train people in psychodrama, which is, I'm dedicated

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