CONTAGION FOR PSYCHODRAMATIC IDEAS IN A LARGE METROPOLIT AN COMMUNITY

Abstract

Some fifteen years ago I travelled to Cleveland for my first interview with Dr. Moreno. In my pocket was a packet of 3x5 cards, some 50 in number, on which I had entered the dates and descriptions of all the teaching situations in which I had found it possible, appropriate and effective to use some form of psychodrama, sociodrama or sociometry during a year of work in Columbus, Ohio. I still remember Moreno's lusty remark as he shuffled through those cards. "Well, I see the networks are growing!" He took it quite for granted that the networks would and should grow. As for me, even after considerable training with Moreno, I have never outgrown the wonderment which comes at the end of each teaching year when I discover the portion of it which was devoted to working psychodramatically-either because it was the natural way to work in a given teaching or community situation or because I was requested specifically to do so.