Playback Theatre’s Debt to Moreno

Authors

  • Jonathan Fox, MA, DPhil hc, TEP Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/3zc0rr61

Keywords:

playback theatre

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Published

2026-01-22

Issue

Vol. 66 No. 1 (2018): Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, & Group Psychotherapy

Section

Theory and History

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