Word: psychodramas
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...Gioconda Smile," into a motion picture, "A Woman's Vengeance," was effected only with a loss in subtle force equal to that suffered in the change of titles. But all of Huxley could not be distilled out fortunately, and that which remains raises the film far above the usual "psychodrama." His writing of the scenario produced dialogue more profound than that, ordinarily heard in film...
Columbia Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Path in the Door, psychodrama by Les Crutchfield...
...staff of 31 resident and consulting psychiatrists, and an elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge. All told the clinic has 38 rooms, and 28 more are to be added...
That is the way Dr. Jacob L. Moreno describes the life at his Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon, N.Y. Psychodrama is Dr. Moreno's method for treating mental ills-a sort of theatrical psychoanalysis which he uses for troubled mortals, as well as for Hitlers and Hamlets. Instead of lying on a couch and confiding their woes to a psychoanalyst, patients act out their problems, impromptu, on a bare little stage. Many a patient who is hostile or shy refuses at first to take part, suddenly blurts out his hidden neurosis...
...tackled "triangles" with all the participants on the stage at once. In one smash-hit he brought a wife and her Don Juan husband to the theater, collected as audience and cast 75 persons who were all involved in one way or another. In marital storms, claims the doctor, psychodrama brings far better results than psychoanalysis, for he can deal with both partners at the same time, in dynamic situations...