THE THIRD PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION AND THE SCOPE OF PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

Why is the First International Congress of Psychodrama held in Paris and not in Moscow, London or New York? Because Paris is the world capital of revolutions. It is the precocious genius of France, its sense of timing, which has made it in our Western civilization the breeding place of many political, social, scientific and artistic revolutions. The most important of the great political revolutions in Europe was the French Revolution of 1789 which set in motion a new vision for the world, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, and becamea model for similar revolutions elsewhere.