ACTION THERAPY: AN INTERVENTION FOR INCREASING INVOLVEMENT IN HUMAN INTERACTION TRAINING

Abstract

J. L. Moreno (1969) has contributed an incisive historical perspective to the burgeoning encounter group movement by tracing the psychiatric roots back to his work of almost 60 years ago. Even more important than Moreno's development of ideational continuity is his search, echoed by Treadwell and Treadwell (1972, p. 22) for " . . . a mutual meeting ground, an environment that will foster cooperativeness, assimilation, inventiveness, spontaneity, and unity," between the many here-and-now action groups which have evolved from the Beacon and Bethel models (Moreno, 1969). This study was proposed as a part of a continuing effort to maximize the mutual contributions of psychodramatic approaches, which originated in the Moreno Institute and the instrumented laboratory method developed by the National Training Laboratories.