Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno is the originator of:

• psychodrama
  
• sociodrama
  
• role training
  
• sociometry
  
• group psychotherapy

Moreno was a young man at the time Freud was already older, both are from Vienna. Moreno turned around most of Freud's ideas. Rather than a couch he had a stage. Where the "doctor" was passive in Freud, with Moreno he is active. Moreno moved to America in 1925 where he was influential in the social sciences and developed Psychodrama.

It is one of the phenomena associated with Dr. Moreno that he is somewhat invisible in the literature. This may be because of the style of his work and the fact that he self published. A more profound reason might be that he pioneered a new way of learning and knowing, he has an approach to method that transcends the science / art split in the people related disciplines.

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Moreno and Psybernet

His work is relevant to the relationships on the Internet. We can learn from the tradition of psychodrama in the development of online psychological work. His notions of sociometry, the links between people are an obvious example. In a post to the mailing list Psyber-L I compared an Internet mailing list with a stage. It shows how Moreno can be an inspiration here, though the medium is very different.

The principal connection between Dr. Moreno's methods and Psybernet is that we aim to use experiential learning in all the Psybernet endeavours.

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Dr. J.L.Moreno Bibliography

Very incomplete, it would be a worthwhile project to have the full bibliography in digital form.

• Marineau, Rene F.
  Jacob Levy Moreno 1889 - 1974 Father of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy. Routlidge 1989 London & New York.
• Fox, Jonathan (Ed.) 1987
  The Essential Moreno. Springler New York.
• Psychodrama. Volumes 1, 2 and 3. Beacon House, New York.
• Sociometry, Experimental Method and the Science of Society. An Approach to a New Political Orientation. Beacon House, Inc. Beacon New York. 1951
  This is the work where I become inspired by his methodology. wl
• "Psychodramatic Production Techniques", Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama Sociometry 4 (1952) Quoted in Fox 1987.
• Who Shall Survive? Foundations of Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy and Sociodrama. Beacon House, Inc. Beacon New York. 1953
• Brigitte MARSCHALL: "Ich bin der Mythe": Von der Stegreifbuehne zum Psychodrama Jakob Levy Morenos. Wien, Koeln, Graz: Boehlau, 1988.

  Brigitte wrote to me: 

   "I am working on an edition of Moreno's early Viennese publications.
  Every contact in this regard would be very welcome!
  Prof. Brigitte Marschall, Univ. of Vienna, Austria "

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Links

• Rob Brodie's Pychodrama Page A wealth of links here.

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Internet Mailing Lists & MOO

• Psychodrama
  Subscribe Psychodrama name name
  LISTSERV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
  The welcome file
• Sociodrama Welcome file with Joining instructions.
  
• GRASSROOTS MOO
  rdz.stjohns.edu 8888
  
• GROUPTALK
  Welcome file with majordomo address
  Psychodramatists from around the world meet here.

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