Psychodrama is a method of individual psychotherapy conducted in front of an audience.  The psychodrama treatment method was discovered by the Romanian psychiatrist Jacob Moreno.  Moreno began private practice as a psychiatrist in Vienna in the 1920s, in the heyday of European psychoanalytic theory and practice.  He became interested in a new theatrical method called improvisation as a way to help patients explore inner conflicts. Psychodrama involves spontaneous dramatic performances in front of a sympathetic audience.  In 1922, Dr. Moreno began providing space in Vienna for actors, including an 18-year-old Peter Lorre, to put on spontaneous representations of daily news or other themes – just as the NFL is providing space for ingrate anti-American exhibitionists today. Moreno emigrated to the United States in 1925.  He practiced, taught, and popularized psychodrama as a psychotherapeutic method for the treatment of anxiety until his death in...(Read Full Post)