"THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE THERAPEUTIC FORMAT AND THE PLACE OF ACTING OUT IN PSYCHOTHERAPY"

Abstract

The present installment of Dr. Moreno's re-evaluation of the various modalities in psychotherapy contains a frontal attack on the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It is not so named specifically, but his XI hypotheses which resulted from subjecting the psychoanalytic procedure to careful scrutiny in relation to how the analytic situation has limited and defined the transac- tions occurring between patient and therapist, state that Freud's methods have stultified the growth of psychotherapy. From the vantage point in the present era it is clear that Freud's dread of acting out was one of the determinants of development of the free association method. This development with other aspects of the treatment-such as the couch-itself had many determinants, notably historical ones