TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF PSYCHO-SOCIO-DRAMA

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  • JOSEPH I. MEIERS Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/4rv9px13

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TRAGEDY

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Why "Tragedy AND Triumph?" They are the only aspects in mankind's history that are relevant to the development of the triad of Moreno's work in the first decade of the Twentieth Century in Vienna and then in the United States-Psychodrama, Sociodrama and Sociometry. Since Moreno's arrival in 1925, these methods have been developing in this order: THE FUNDAMENTAL WORKS pointed the way, Group Psychotherapy (1931); Who Shall Survive (1934)-A New Approach to Human Inter-Relations, intertwining sociometry, psycho-socio-drama and group psychotherapy-the three pillars of the triad reflecting the intensive action in thought, research, training and therapy of the needs of the "American Scene."

References

1. MORENO, J. L. Group Method and Group Psychotherapy. Beacon, N.Y., Beacon House, (1931). Sociometry Monographs, No. 5, pp. 104; charts, sociograms.

2. --. Who Shall Survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations. (1st ed., Washington, D.C., Nerv. & Ment. Disease Publish. Co., 1934, pp. 477, ill.)

2. ed., Beacon, N.Y., Beacon House, 1953.

3. MEIERS, J. Origins and Development of Group Psychotherapy. A Historical Survey (1930-1945). Beacon, N.Y., Beacon House, 1946 (Psychodrama Monographs, No/17, pp. 44; charts, tables. (Bibliography: pp. 24-44).

4. LEWIS, C. S. The Abolition of Man (or: Reflections on Education .. .) Crowell- Collier Publish. Co., N.Y., N.Y., (paperback), 1962, pp. 120.

5. MORENO, J. L. (I) The Roots of Psychodrama, in Group Psychotherapy J., Vol. XIX, No. 3-4, 1966 (see esp. p. 144-145). (II) The Psychodrama of Sigmund Freud. Beacon, N.Y., Beacon House, 1967 (abridged edition).

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2025-01-06

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Vol. 20 No. 3-4 (1967): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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