Psychodrama, Surplus Reality, and the Art of Healing

Abstract

My serious reading of the literature of psychodrama started in 1981 in Marrakech. It was there, under the Moroccan sun and under the influence of the atmosphere and the local culture, that I first read J. L. Moreno's Psychodrama, Volume 1. It was a heady experience. I decided that the book contained something very important and was very different from the literature I had read in my then recently completed psychiatric and psychoanalytic therapy training. At times, however, it was very difficult for me to grasp Moreno's ideas,
although I did think he was trying to say something of great interest and importance. Indeed, I decided to train as a psychodramatist.