[The contribution of Jacob Lévy Moreno]

Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1983 Dec;141(10):1079-87.
[Article in French]

Abstract

meeting of two days organized has happened at the Chartreuse C.H.S., the 24th and the 25th of March 1983, to give homage to J.-L. Moreno , founder of the groupe dynamic and of the psychodrama, insufficiently honoured in France, it looks. Living exchanges have allowed us to draw the mean lines of his technical innovations based of spontaneousity since "the empty chair", "the doble " and "the upsetting of parts", till the sociometric diagram allowing to locate the interactions in the groupe . Then, the different extensions of the therapeutical psychodrama have been developed, practiced since 35 years in Saint- Venant and in Dijon , according to a original method different with nevrosed illmen and with psychotic patients, those one profiting of "intermediate objects", making easier the relationships. The theater, the groupe psychanalyse , or more recently the development of technics makings intervention of somatic and bio- energetical dimension, have settled fruisful extension of the Moreno 's initiative. It is necessary to locate these activities in the universal and humanist context and in the "living will" of the author.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • English Abstract
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Group Processes
  • History, 19th Century
  • History, 20th Century
  • Psychodrama / history*
  • Psychotherapy, Group / history*
  • Romania
  • Sociology / history
  • United States

Personal name as subject

  • J L Moreno