PSYCHOANALYST VS. PSYCHODRAMATIST A DIALOGUE

Abstract

Let me try to make my discussion remarks in a form congenial to the topic of our discussion. Let me present them in a dialogical form, choosing two protagonists as my principal spokesmen: the Psychoanalyst and the Psychodramatist. This, I suspect, is quite an artful device of sitting on the interdisciplinary fence, giving me a chance to speak with my tongue in other people's cheeks, while at the same time forcing them-that is my protagonists- to use my script for their discourse. Of course, I know full well that I am not likely to deceive you and that you will readily recognize my device for what it is: a feeble attempt to take a leaf out of Dr. Moreno's book-pretending, for a brief moment of grandiosity and expansiveness, to be Dr. Moreno himself. But you will note that I shall do so for brief moments only, followed by a deplorable change of personality in order to become an innocent mouthpiece of Dr. Moreno's psychoanalytic critics.