ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHODRAMA PERSONAL MEETING OF DR. CARL JOERGENSEN (COPEN- HAGEN) WITH DR. J. L. MORENO (BEACON, N. Y.)

Abstract

In the journal GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY(Vol. X, No. 4, Dec. 1957) there appeared an article entitled "Scandinavian Myth about the Origin of Psycho- drama", by Joseph Meiers, M.D. which defended Dr. J. L. Moreno's claim of having originated psychodrama as a method of psychotherapy. Dr. Meiers' paper was directed against a passage quoted from an article by me in The Nervous Child' which appeared in a paper by S. R. Slavson in the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy? In my article I asserted that what Dr. Moreno calls "psychodrama" was, to my knowledge, originated and first applied by the Danish psychiatrist Carl Joergensen.