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## Abstract Psychodrama therapists believe in the idea of spontaneously creative human beings. Mental disorders are understood as blockages or deficits in the patients’ inner creativity. Psychodrama __originated__ from Moreno’s experience at the Impromptu Theatre in Vienna in 1921. A gentle, beautiful actress who today can be believed to have suffered from a borderline organization had unexpectedly developed uncontrollable anger outbursts in her new marriage. Moreno then had the actress enact the roles of street girls and witches in the Impromptu Theatre. As a result, the actress gained __ego control__ over her anger outbursts in her marriage in everyday life. Her outbursts became less frequent and shorter, and sometimes she would laugh even __before__ having her anger outburst. __On the basis of this experience__, Moreno developed a causal psychotherapy of psychoses from 1936 onwards (Moreno 1939). Later, he also developed therapy for people with neurosis (Moreno 1945b). According to Moreno (1979, p. 77), the playful transition through the absurdity of neurotic or psychotic patterns helps patients to experience the “true second time, which liberates from the first”. Moreno was so

Author

Reinhard T. Krüger

Publisher

Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd Fka Springer Science + Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9789819975075

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences