AN INITIAL VENTURE IN THE USE OF TELEVISION AS A MEDIUM FOR PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

A Psychodrama session was televised for the first time on Station WTOP in Washington, D. C. on the 19th of April 1953. It was one of a series of thirteen programs produced by the Committee on Education of the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program of the District of Columbia. Public Law 347, which established this Program on February 16, 1950 requires, among other things, that the organization, ".. . shall prepare and publish materials, data and information to be used in a program of public education...." Psychodrama has been used effectively by the clinic as a technique of group psychotherapy since its establishment