BEHAVIORISM AND PSYCHODRAMA: WORLDS NOT SO FAR APART

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  • GERARD R. KELLY Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/q0ex9z90

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PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

Behaviorism and Psychodrama appear opposite among approaches to human behavior. This is regrettable as well as shortsighted. When one considers the spectrum of history, Behaviorism and Psychodrama emerge from similar milieu and share a generic quality. Both were parented by 19th Century romanticism and nurtured through the new Darwinian climate of natural law and the unity of
science. Each carved a new conceptual footing somewhere between viewing man either as a universe packed into a single individual (Freud) or as a social cog enmeshed within a socio-economic conflict (Marx). Moreover, each continually wrestled a familiar problem area-the changes in human behavior.

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2025-01-15

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Vol. 31 (1978): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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