Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1940.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Moreno, J. L. (Jacob Levy), 1889-1974.

Contributor:

Murphy, Gardner, 1895-1979.

Language:

English

German

Physical Description:

1 item (3 leaves)

Contained In:

Mahler-Werfel Papers. Folder 845.

Place of Publication:

1940.

Language Note:

In German and English.

Biography/History:

Moreno, a psychiatrist, is known as the developer of psychodrama, a form of group psychotherapy. Born in Rumania and raised in Vienna, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1925. He had known Franz Werfel in Vienna, where Moreno (at that time known as Jacob Levy) had been the editor of the Expressionist journal Der Daimon (later Der neue Daimon), to which Werfel had been a contributor. They apparently met again after many years in New York in 1940, shortly following Werfel's emigration to the U.S.

Summary:

Includes the article "The Mind is a Stage. Adjusting Mental Problems in a 'Spontaneity Theater,'" by Gardner Murphy (published in Forum Magazine, 1937), about Moreno's sanatorium in Beacon, N.Y., and his method of therapeutic theater.