J. L. Moreno
Austrian psychiatrist
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contribution to psychotherapeutic techniques
- In psychodrama
Moreno, who had observed that an actress subject to violent fits of temper in private life behaved more moderately when given violent stage roles. Although the situations in psychodrama are simulated, they can generate real emotion and new insight and help to establish more effective…
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development of sociometry
- In sociometry
…work of the Austrian-born psychiatrist J.L. Moreno, who developed the method as a research and therapeutic technique. Sociometry has come to have several meanings; it is most commonly applied to the quantitative treatment of preferential interpersonal relations, but it is also used to mean the quantitative treatment of all kinds…
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