The Present Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life

Abstract

This book is one of the most cogent advances in the field of sociometry in the last 60 years, although the author does not specifically address or even acknowledge Moreno's contributions. Stem is an eminent child development researcher, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, and in this book, he explores some frontiers of theory that include a deeper appreciation of some of Moreno's favorite categories: the here-and-know, encounter (although Stem calls it the "intersubjectivity"), and the like. I appreciated the way that the
author supported many of Moreno's intuitions and believe that some of his comments on psychotherapy-mainly one-to-one analytic therapy in the latest fashion-might apply even more to psychodrama.