SPONTANEITY TRAINING AT THE DORRA INSTITUTE, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

Abstract

In this article, the writer deals with a study he conducted in I 954 at the Dorra Institute, while working there as a part-time psychotherapist. The experiment attempted to explore, in an Egyptian situation, the hypothesis offered by Sarbin that "morons can he stimulated to react intelligently to social situations through the use of psychodramatic and spontaneity train- ing methods".1 It was also intended to find out whether psychodrama could be of some other uses to feeble-minded children.