moreno history satir

[Adam Blatner]

Bill wysong noted recently:   By-the-way in the American Journal of Psychiatry, April 1970, there is a review of Perl's Gestalt Therapy Verbatim by Eric Berne (of I'm OK, You're OK fame.)  The review states, "In his selection of specific techniques, Dr. Perls shares with other 'active' psychotherapists the 'Moreno problem': the fact that nearly all known 'active' techniques were first tried out by Dr. J. L. Moreno in psychodrama, so that it is difficult to come up with an original idea in this reguard."  I have copies of this review to give to doubters. 
     ab: good! this quote and also from will schutz and ah maslow all are in my Acting-In in the chapter on history.

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2. Virginia Satir was one of the few noted therapists that credited Moreno.  If you don't know: Family sculpture is a psychodrama technique.  Satir learned it from Carl Hollander.  Carl and Virginia were in Aspen at a conference.  Afterwards Carl drove Virginia to the Denver airport.  She asked Carl what he did and Carl said psychodrama.  Virginia asked him to explain the process.  One part of what Carl told her was how sculpturing was used within  psychodramas.  She was intrigued with the idea and used it as a stand-alone technique.  
            AB: very interesting. I thought she might have learned it at Esalen, because apparently before around 1965 she wasn't using it, and by 1969 she was. Do you have any documentation about this story? 
          
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