SOME ESSENTIALS IN GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

In 1946, during the Annual Convention of the American Psychiatric Association, the writer had occasion to visit the Moreno Institute in New York City. There, for the first time, as one of the spectators, he observed a "public session" in Psychodrama. He was profoundly impressed with this type of psychotherapy and decided, there· arid then, to apply certain of the principles of this methodology in his own private practice. Upon his return to Detroit, the first new patient appeared to be an appropriate case. Although the writer's office was not equipped for psychodramatic therapy in the classical manner as devised by Dr. J.L. Moreno, he, nevertheless, proceeded to do the best he could despite these limitations.