Coffee Break with Marcia Karp

Marcia attended the Vienna conference in 1968, the forerunner to the formation of IAGP in 1973. 

Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama (T.E.P.) Diploma awarded by The American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy. Registered: United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists (U.K.C.P.) She was Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association for 11 years. She was on the Board of the International Association of Group Psychotherapists for 6 years. She is a Fellow of the American Association of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. She has a Directorship Certificate from the Beacon Academy, Beacon New York, Trainers, J.L. and Zerka Moreno. She is a founding member of the Federation Of European and Mediterranean Psychodrama Training Organizations, She is the recipient of the J. L. Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award of the ASGPP and Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the BPA.

She has Co-edited “Psychodrama: Inspiration and Technique,” P. Holmes and M. Karp, Routledge, London/New York, 1992, published in Portuguese, Hebrew, Spanish, and other languages; “Psychodrama Since Moreno”, coedited by P. Holmes, M. Karp and M. Watson, Routledge, London/New York, 1994 and “TheHandbook of Psychodrama”, co-edited by M. Karp, P. Holmes and K. Tauvon, Routledge/Taylor Francis Group, London/NewYork, 1998 recently published in Greek, Russian, in translation currently in Japanese, and other languages. She has written a chapter: Psychodrama of Rape and Torture: A Sixteen -Year Follow-upCase Study, in “Psychodrama with TraumaSurvivors- Acting Out Your Pain”, Edited by P. Kellermann and K. Hudgins, Jessica KingleyPublisher, London/Philadelphia, 2000. She wrote, “Introduction to Psychodrama” published in the IAGP Forum Publication, TheBritish Counselling Journal, The British Social Work Journal, and a further version in “TheHandbook of Psychodrama”, Karp, Holmes, co-ed. Routledge, London N.Y., 1998, pp.3-13. She has contributed, “Discussion on Directingbetween Anne Anceline Schutzenberger andMarcia Karp, in “Psychodrama TrainingEuropean Review,” edited by P. Fontaine, FEPTO Publications, 1989 Leuven, Belgium.

She works for the East London National Health Service with Personality Disorder andBorderline individuals. She has a private practice in Brentford, West London where she sees individuals and groups for psychotherapy. and supervision. She travels the world training people andgroups in Psychodrama. Marcia is currently involved with ongoing training programs in Moscow, Kiev, Geneva, Athens and Spain. TV Documentary Psychodrama on the new Europe Publishing date: 16/12/2010 Broadcasting of the video Documentary‘Diversity is a story to tell: experiences of video therapy and psychodrama on the newEurope’ in the countries of the PHD2consortium. The video documentary reports the activities carried out in the laboratories realized in all the partner countries and the experiences of the two years of the project. The documentary is being broadcasted on the TVs of the partner countries.

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