Psychodrama. First volume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Therapeutic use.

Drama.

Psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychology.

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

Beacon, N.Y. : Beacon House, 1946.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"The growing interest in psychodrama, in its origins and applications, are the main reason for this publication. The papers and statements contained in the three volumes fall into six categories: (a) Papers previously printed in English; (b) Papers written in English but now out of print; (c) Papers which appeared in German, here translated for the first time; (d) Unpublished papers; (e) Psychodramatic protocols, and (f) Documents showing the development of psychodrama--from 1910 to 1945. In the last ten years I have directed over fifteen hundred psychodramatic sessions. My original plan of publishing the contents of a few hundred sessions alone would have required an encyclopedic enterprise of about fifty one-thousand-page volumes. It is my matured opinion that only the literary, word-to-act reduplication of actual sessions can give the reader an approximation to psychodramatic experience. Only the greatest variety of sessions can give him a comprehension of the diversity of human nature and of human society. But this ambitious plan came into conflict with the necessity to communicate my discoveries and methods without further chronic postponement. The result was this compromise. The presentation given to psychodrama in these three volumes falls far short of my own expectations, but I hope that readers, students and practitioners of psychodrama will find them useful, even in this unsatisfactory form. The growth of practice in psychodrama and group psychotherapy has been so rapid since the start of World War II that a careful evaluation of the theoretical and practical issues can no longer be postponed. Their use, even in their most diluted forms, is fraught with dangers in the hands of the uninformed and unskilled"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

Notes:

Includes bibliography.

Vols. by J. L. Moreno in collaboration with Zerka T. Moreno.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2005 dcunns.

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Original

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