TELE AND INTERPERSONAL THERAPY-AN APPRAISAL OF MORENO'S CONCEPT FROM THE ADLERIAN POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

Moreno made a significant contribution toward the integration of knowledge in psychiatry, long overdue, when he presented his own basic concepts in two concise formulations (GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY, Vol VII, No. 2 and No. 3-4, 1954) and submitted them to a number of exponents of different points of view for their comment. I do not think that Moreno himself, in this course of lectures, was able "to stress the common denominators" of all the varieties of modern psychotherapy as he attempted to do. Nobody can do that at the present time, since very few know exactly the position of others who do not belong to the same school of thought. However, by focussing all remarks on the position which Moreno is taking, it should be better possible to understand exactly each one's position. This knowing about each other, regardless of agreement or disagreement, is the basis for what I consider the "integration of knowledge."