PSYCHODRAMA, A THEATRE FOR OUR TIME

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  • ROBERT M. GINN Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/xj55tq44

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PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

When God created the world in six days he had stopped a day too early. He had given Man a place to live but in order to make it safe for him he also chained him to that place. On the seventh day he should have created for Man a second world, another one, free of the first world and in which he could purge himself from it, but a world which would not chain anyone because it was not real. It is here where the theatre of spontaneity continues God's creation of the world by opening for Man a new dimension of existence.

References

1. Moreno, J. L.,,The Theatre of Spontaneity, Beacon House, 1947, p. 99.

2. Moreno, J. L. (ed.), Sociometry And The Science Of Man, Beacon House, p.113.

3. The Theatre Of Spontaneity, p. 37.

4. Ibid., p. 37.

5. Moreno, J. L., Who Shall Survive? Beacon House, Beacon, New York, 1953, p.42.

6. Ibid., p. 47.

7. Ibid., p. 40.

8. Ibid., p. 41.

9. Ibid., p. 41.

10. The Theatre Of Spontaneity, p. 46.

11. Ibid., p. 100.

12. Ibid., p. 73.

13. Ibid., p. 74.

14. Ibid., p. 100.

15. Ibid., p. 99.

16. Ibid., p. 99.

17. Sociometry And The Science Of Man, p. 108.

18. Ibid., p. 109.

19. Ibid., p. 112.

20. Ibid., p. 111.

21. Moreno, J. L., Psychodrama, First Volume (Fourth Edition), Beacon House, Beacon, New York, 1972, p. 10.

22. Ibid., p. 108.

23. The Theatre Of Spontaneity, p. 7.

24. Sociometry And The Science Of Man, p. 126.

25. Ibid., p. 135.

26. The Theatre Of Spontaneity, p.3.

27. Psychodrama, First Volume, p. 105.

28. Ibid., Introduction to the Fourth Edition (a).

29. Cole and Chinoy, Directors On Directing, Bobbs-Merrill, Co., Inc., 1963, p. 115.

30. Ibid., p. 111.

31. The Theatre of Spontaneity, p. 100-1.

32. Artaud, Antonin, The Theatre And Its Double; Evergreen Press; 1960; p. 74.

33. Ibid., p. 75.

34. Grotowski, Jerzy, Towards A Poor Theatre, Simon and Shuster, 1969; p. 13.

35. Ibid., p. 20.

36. Ibid., p. 21.

37. Ibid., p. 23.

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2025-01-14

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Vol. 27 No. 1-4 (1974): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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