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Psychodrama is a deep-action method of psychotherapy founded by Jacob L. Moreno. A variety of sources credit Jacob Moreno with having founded group therapy (Blatner 1988; Fox, 1987) and, moreover, as having coined the phrase. According to Moreno, group therapy was an outgrowth of his work in developing psychodrama; and not, as is popularly misconstrued, the other way around (Fox, 1987). As such the understanding of psychodrama may provide a historically advantageous foundation for group psychotherapy.
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Tomasulo, D. (1990). Psychodrama: An Introduction to Imagery in Action. In: Kunzendorf, R.G. (eds) Mental Imagery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2623-4_30
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