The Psychodrama Television Show that Never Was

Authors

  • Jonathan D. Moreno David & Lyn Silfen University Professor, Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy and of History & Sociology of Science. Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/93bj4t30

Keywords:

Psychodrama Television Show, history

Abstract

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References

Mort Abrahams to J.L. Moreno, October 26, 1949, J.L. Moreno Papers, Francis A. Countway Library, Boston, MA.

2 SFO Museum, “Television in the Antenna Age,” July 2011-January 2012. https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/television-tv-antennaage#:~:text=By%201950%2C%20television%20ownership%20soared,every%20aspect%20of%20American%20society.

3 Special thanks to Sergio Guimaraes, who took the initiative to upload brief fragments of J.L. in didactic mode from the J.L. Moreno Collection at the Countway Library of Medicine.

4 J.L. Moreno, “Psychodrama and Therapeutic Motion Pictures”, (Beacon, N.Y.: Beacon House, 1943).

5 Science+Media Museum, “Freud on Film: Psychoanalysis and Cinema,” February 23, 2023. https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/freud-moviespsychoanalysis#:~:text=Sigmund%20Freud%20was%20resistant%20to,exploring%20history's%20great%20love%20storis.

6 Graham Henry Lazar, “Psychodrama: The Word, the Practice, the Project,” Honors Thesis, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2012, p. 42.

Mort Abrahams, IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009025/.

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Published

2026-01-22

Issue

Vol. 70 No. 1 (2024): Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, & Group Psychotherapy

Section

Historical Archives

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