COMMENTS ON MORENO'S "INTERPERSONAL THERAPY, GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE FUNCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS"

Abstract

My discussion of Moreno's first lecture consisted of less than 300 words -an instance of remarkable restraint. And yet it has already elicited com- ments several scores of times its own length, some favorable and some per- haps not quite. The latter were mostly to the effect that nowhere in his Autobiography, as I stated, did Freud literally propound a "dictum ... in which he identifies a transference neurosis as an artifact of poor therapeutic technique." Such strictures typify many of our current dialectic difficul- ties: a preoccupation with exegetic verbalisms in lieu of scientific principles and operations. However, since it seems necessary to do so, let us examine the case on this level also