Word: psychodramas
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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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...