Jakob Levy Moreno (* 18. May 1889 in Bucharest; "† 14. May 1974 in Beacon, New York), a physician and a psychiatrist, was the founder of the Psychodramas, the Soziometrie and the Gruppenpsychotherapie.

The years in Vienna

Moreno experienced the escape of its family (those sephardischer descent was) before poverty and Pogromen as a child at the age of four years to Vienna, where he buildup. After the attendance of a Jewish school it studied medicine in Vienna. Already as a young person it was of the bar hoar frost theatre, at this time in Vienna an unusual bloom experienced - temporarily it was to have given up to one hundred bar hoar frost stages - fascinated. Likewise it admired the and creativity of the children playing in the park plants.

During its study busy it with social fringe groups and worked itself after its graduation as a physician in a refugee camp in Mitterndorf. These experiences led it to see in the group more than the sum of their members. These experiences affected 1918 to a substantial part late developed method of the Psychodramas.Von - 1925 he was active as a physician in bath Its radical group-therapeutic theatre concept, which it developed between timely, however little had granted "public success".

The years in America

1925 he emigrated into the USA. As reason it is often indicated that he promised himself there with one of it developed electromagnetic recording methods success. Besides however the desire might have been large to separate from the relationship with its engaged one.

Jakob Levy Moreno, which called itself after its emigration into the USA Jack Moreno, created a small psychiatric hospital in Beacon (the USA), in which as psychotherapeutische measure one practiced to theatre plays.

Founder of the Soziometrie.

Publications in the early work

• "Invitation to a meeting", 2 booklets (1914)
• drew up the magazine "Daimon" (1918)
• "The divinity as an author" (1922)
• "The divinity as (1922)
• "The bar hoar frost theatre" (1923)

Publications to Psychodrama and Gruppenpsychotherapie

• "Who shall " (1934) (dt.: The bases of the Soziometrie - ways to the re-organization of the society " (1953, 4. Aufl. 1996)
• "Psychodrama and Soziometrie" (1989)
• Gruppenpsychotherapie and Psychodrama (1959)

Literature

• "Excerpts from the autobiography" (1995) inScenario, ISBN 3-929296-01-2

See also: History of the medicine - list of the important medical profession and physicians

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