MORENO'S THEORY OF INTERPERSONAL THERAPY

Abstract

Buried in the second of Moreno's integrating lectures is a concept to which I shall address myself. That it did not occur as a minor addition is evident since t:hls same point was made by Moreno twenty-four years ago when he condemned the dominant brands of individual psychotherapy for their unsymmetry( 4 )-that is to say the patient and the therapist did not meet on a level of equality. What Moreno bas been doing in his clinical practice and what he has been advocating---as shall be seen along with others is a kind of democracy in psychothera