PSYCHODRAMA OF ENURESIS NOCTURNA IN BOYS

Abstract

As we know, it was Moreno (2, 3), the spiritual father of psychodrama as a psychotherapeutic method, who first applied this modus procedendi to children when, nearly forty years ago, in the parks of the capital of what was once Austro-Hungary, he succeeded in inducing young children to give an improvised rendering of their experiences and fantasies. It need cause no surprise that he appealed especially to children, who, of course, are less inhibited than adults and less self-critical with respect to their modes of
expression. They are more spontaneous in their psychomotoric manifestations, and more readily give in to their urge to let their spontaneity have its fling. More than adults, too, children are susceptible to suggestive influences, and therefore sooner respond to the group leader's instructions and incentives, which make them enter with still greater spontaneity into the game which, for them, is semi-reality. As Carp (1) rightly argues, it is especially pediatric psychotherapy that might derive considerable benefit from the method of psychodrama.