Jacob L. Moreno
Turned the stage into a tool for healing the psyche.
Founder of psychodrama and sociometry, using guided role-play and enactment so people can act out conflicts rather than only talk about them.
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You analyse their dreams; I try to give them the courage to dream again.
Who they were
Jacob Levy Moreno was a Romanian-American psychiatrist who trained in medicine in Vienna, where he ran the improvisational Theater of Spontaneity that seeded psychodrama. After emigrating to New York in 1925 he developed sociometry and pioneered group psychotherapy methods, founding a sanitarium and training center in Beacon, New York.
Terms they cared about
Ideas worth knowing
Their techniques
How the work was done
Their big idea
Psychodrama & Sociometry
Spontaneous enactment and the mapping of relationships heal both person and group.
The approach they founded
Psychodrama
Explores inner and relational life through enactment, role reversal, and the group as a stage.
Questions in their spirit
What they’d ask you
Sit with one. Answer online, or in the app.
Carry the idea forward
Moreno — What they’d ask you
Psipas asks you one small, honest question at a time — and builds the picture from your answers.