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Section 1. Millennium Articles

Every Revolution Should Have Dancing: Biology, Community Organization, Constructionism, and Joy

Pages 188-191
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Almost half a century ago, Eric Berne elaborated his therapeutic framework in terms of the neurology of the day (Penfield, 1952); the perspective of his ego state, transaction, game and script frameworks; and the pragmatism of his emphasis on fun and “curing people” rather than on “doing group therapy.” Today, thanks to expanding knowledge of language use, neurophysiology, and genetics, we are on the threshold of understanding all of this in relation to what we are biologically capable of and within the superordinate framework of constructivism.

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Barbara Ann Allen

James R Allen, M.D., FRCP (C), M.P.H., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and Rainbolt Family Chair of Child-Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical).
Barbara Ann Allen, ACSW, M.P.H., PhD. has been a psychotherapist, mental health planner, and human ecologist in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.