SOCIOMETRY AND PSYCHODRAMA TECHNIQUES OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

The categorization of mental patients as neurotic or psychotic, each major category being divided into sub-categories has been established for so long a period by psychiatrists that it is seldom seriously challenged. Psychologists and social workers, the less secure practitioners in the treatment of mental illness have more or less accepted it without question. They have even translated and transposed these categories and sub-categories into the fields of Juvenile Delinquency and the various addictions with slightly more emphasis given to psychopathic and sociopathic categorizations. This typology and its variants is referred to as a medical typology or classification system. It divides patients and counselees into four major categories; psychotic, neurotic, psychopathic, and sociopathic, each with sub-categories