MORENO, Jacob Levy. (b. 1889) The Application of the Group Method to the Classification of Prisoners. A Round Table Conference at the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, Pa., May 31 1932. Printed by the National Committee on Prisons and Prison labor, NYC. "Not released fir/publication." Copyrighted by Dr. J.L. Moreno, December 20th, 1932. 11"x 8.5", 39 leaves. I believe that his is a Carbon Copy.
Pp 1-7 includes a list of participants and a short introduction.
Condition: this is, so far as I can tell, a carbon copy of the typed committee/meeting reports, on thin (but not onion) paper. There are chips and minor tears on the first few and last few pages, and the whole had been previously "bound" with three staples, though now those are gone and the report is unbound. Provenance: from the Library of Congress "Pamphlet Collection", though it is not stamped so.
Rare. No copies of this work are located in WorldCat.
Moreno was a pioneer in psychotherapy and psychodrama, and this seems to be a very early application of the Moreno theory.
(This paper was published a dozen years later as "The Application of the Group Method to the Classification of Prisoners." in Moreno's Sociometry volume 8, no. 3/4 (1945) 15-39, and also as a 308-page book in the same year. From J.L. Henderson's review of "Group Therapy, a Symposium: Edited by J. L. Moreno, M.D." (New York: Beacon House, Inc., 1945): "This book contains the proceedings of two round table conferences on group psychotherapy. The title of the first, held in 1932, was The Application of the Group Method to the Classification of Prisoners. It was sponsored by Dr. William A. White, who had read Dr. Moreno's monograph and had talked with him, and was interested in the possible importance of the group approach to treatment. Although much of the discussion centered about the treatment of prisoners, the broader implications and possibilities of the group method were discussed. The talks were largely exploratory. Dr. Moreno concluded the discussion with what seemed to be a defensive explanation of his theory."--Psychoanalytic Quarterly, (1947), vol 16:420-422
"In 1925, Moreno moved to New York City, where he worked as a psychiatrist and continued experimenting with psychodramatics. He introduced group therapy into schools and prisons, such as Sing Sing, and he compiled the results of his research there into a book titled Who Shall Survive?: Foundations of Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy, and Sociodrama, published in 1934. He established the Beacon Hill Sanitarium, renamed the Moreno Sanitarium and later, the Moreno Institute, where he was the physician in charge between 1936 and 1968. Moreno started several journals, including Impromptu, Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy, and the International Journal of Sociometry and Sociatry. He was an adjunct professor of sociology at New York University from 1952–1966, and a guest lecturer at a number of universities, including the New School for Social Research, from 1937–1938, and Columbia University, from 1939–1940. Moreno also founded the Impromptu Theatre at Carnegie Hall and the Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon. He was directly responsible for the American Psychiatric Association’s recognition of group psychotherapy as a credible and viable form of treatment." AND "While in school, Moreno began to develop his own theories for therapeutic practice that were distinctly different from those of Sigmund Freud’s. Rather than analyzing clients’ pasts, Moreno preferred to focus on the present and future through the use of interpersonal relations. Moreno’s interest in theater led him to develop his psychodrama technique. A psychodrama session focuses primarily on one person, called the protagonist. Techniques such as mirroring the behavior of the protagonist and role reversal are used to help participants better understand their own behavior and feelings, as well as the behavior and feelings of others."--Amar, Nadine. (2005). Jacob L. Moreno. International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Also see: Moreno, Jacob L. (n.d.). American National Biography Online.
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