Encounter
This is the third of three posts based on the monograph “Origins of Encounter and Encounter Groups” by J.L. And Zerka Moreno This is obviously the main theme of the encounter monograph. There is more...
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“Origins of Encounter and Encounter Groups” by J.L. And Zerka Moreno
I managed to get hold of a monograph, Origins of Encounter and Encounter groups. (Moreno & Moreno, 1970). It is a stimulating read. I have just created three separate posts. Balancing openness...
View ArticleVarieties of Encounter
Facilitating interaction was the dictum I used for the first couple therapy I did. I recall, as an untrained social worker in a hospital being asked to work with a couple who had difficulties. The...
View ArticleRoles Create Roles
“a role is the functioning form the individual assumes in the specific moment he reacts to a specific situation in which other persons or objects are involved” (Moreno, 1977, p IV) Lets take a list of...
View ArticleTherapeutic Tele
I found a few pages in Psychodrama Vol I by J.L Moreno – I think this item was written well before 77 when the book came out – a Symposium in the 40s? Moreno talks of the individual locus of physical...
View ArticleMarriage and family therapy – Inter-psyche
Here is a quote from Moreno that has major implications for how we conduct psychodrama in groups or with individuals when they want to work on significant relationships and the other party is not...
View ArticleThe Moment in History
I am a psychodramatist and hence a student of the work of J.L. Moreno. And I hold his philosophy and methods to be revolutionary in the sense of having potential to heal humanity. There is an area of...
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It’s only ontology.
From the Dictionary: Ontology noun: ontology; plural noun: ontologies 1. the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being. 2. a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that...
View ArticleSpontaneity-creativity
For Moreno spontaneity was “a new response to an old situation or an adequate response to a new situation” (1953, p. 336), with creativity adding the element of inventiveness. Moreno, Zerka T....
View ArticleInterpsyche – Moreno quote
Marriage and family therapy for instance, has to be so conducted that the “interpsyche” of the entire group is re-enacted so that all their tele-relations, their co-conscious and co-unconscious states...
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Protagonist, group or leader centered psychodrama? Terminology
The term “group centered” is used in Australia and New Zealand psychodrama circles with respect to warm-up and also with respect to the drama itself. Firstly with respect to the drama. I recall Max...
View ArticlePsychodrama and the body
Some quotes from Moreno in “Who Shall Survive?” Role emergence is prior to the emergence of the self. Roles do not emerge from the self, but the self may emerge from roles. The hypothesis upheld by...
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John Nolte – Three Psychodrama Books
The Philosophy, Theory and Methods of J. L. Moreno I have the Hard Cover and the Kindle and also found a pdf online. I like the book. It is a good primer on Moreno and the psychodrama Method. I like...
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Moreno on studying society.
THE MATERIAL ASPECT OF THE SOCIAL SITUATION The dynamic logic of social relations is particularly intricate and has remained unconscious with Man because of his maximal proximity and involvement in his...
View ArticleThis is the 100 year anniversary of Sociometry!
The year 1933 may have been the official, but the year 1923 was the conceptual origin of sociometry ; it was the publication date of my book Das Stegreiftheater which contained the seeds of many of...
View ArticleHomo Faber
One of my favourite posts in this blog is called Whole Earth Catalog – 50 Years. Read through to the end of it to find the gem, in my opinion, which is to understand the sad contortion of humanity’s...
View ArticleThe relations of creativity. Moreno & Marx
Here is a follow on post to an earlier one Homo faber What makes us human – what is the one thing? Humans are creators: Homo faber. Yes, we are wise hence our scientific name is Homo sapiens. More...
View ArticleMarx & Moreno Writing Project
I’m planning to write a monograph about every mention of Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” And I’ll put each section here as a blog post. Tag: Monograph. Here is the Intro. ❋ Marx in Moreno’s Who Shall...
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