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Jacob

Levy Moreno (born Iacob

Levy; May 18, 1889 – May 14, 1974) was a and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy.

During his lifetime, he was recognized as one of the leading social scientists. Jacob Levy Moreno was born in Bucharest in the Kingdom of Romania. His

father was Moreno Nissim Levy, a Sephardi Jewish merchant born in 1856 in

Plevna in the Ottoman Empire (today Pleven, Bulgaria). Jacob's grandfather Buchis had

moved to Plevna from Constantinople, where his

ancestors had settled after they left Spain in 1492. It is thought that the

Morenos left Plevna for Bucharest during the Russo-Turkish War of

1877–1878, following the Plevna rabbi, Haim Bejarano in search of a

more hospitable environment. Jacob Moreno's mother, Paulina Iancu or Wolf, was

also a Sephardi Jew, born in 1873, and originated from Călăraşi, Romania. In

1895, a time of great intellectual creativity and political turmoil, the family

moved to Vienna. He studied medicine, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Vienna,

becoming a Doctor of Medicine in

1917. He had rejected Freudian theory while still a medical student, and became

interested in the potential of group settings for therapeutic practice.

In his autobiography, Moreno recalls this encounter with Sigmund Freud in 1912. "I attended one of Freud’s

lectures. He had just finished an analysis of a telepathic dream. As the

students filed out, he singled me out from the crowd and asked me what I was

doing. I responded, 'Well, Dr. Freud, I start where you leave off. You meet

people in the artificial setting of your office. I meet them on the street and

in their homes, in their natural surroundings. You analyze their dreams. I give

them the courage to dream again. You analyze and tear them apart. I let them

act out their conflicting roles and help them to put the parts back together

again” . While living in Vienna in the early 1900s Moreno started an

improvisational theater company, Stegreiftheater, the Theater of

Spontaneity [5]:72 where he formulated a form of psychotherapy

he called psychodrama, which employed improvised dramatizations, role-plays and

other therapeutic, spontaneous dramatic expressions that utilized and unleashed

the spontaneity and creativity of the group and its individual members.[5]:15,16 Moreno saw "psychodrama as the next

logical step beyond psychoanalysis." It was "an opportunity to get

into action instead of just talking, to take the role of the important people

in our lives to understand them better, to confront them imaginatively in the

safety of the therapeutic theater, and most of all to become more creative and

spotantaneous human beings." In his book Who Shall

Survive? (Preludes, p.xxviii) Moreno wrote of the genesis of his Group

Psychotherapy in 1913-14 in Vienna, formulating his ideas while working with

groups of prostitutes. Moving to the U.S.A. in 1925, he began working in New

York City. There, Moreno worked on his theory of interpersonal relations,

and the development of his work in psychodrama, sociometry, group psychotherapy, sociodrama, and sociatry. In his autobiography he wrote "only in New

York, the melting pot of the nations, the vast metropolis, with all its freedom

from all preconceived notions, could I be free to pursue sociometric group

research in the grand style I had envisioned". The

New York Times wrote “He found that acceptance of his theories was slow,

particularly because some colleagues deplored his showmanship.” He

worked at the Plymouth Institute, Brooklyn, and at Mount Sinai Hospital.

In 1929, he founded an Impromptu Theater at Carnegie Hall and later did work at the Guild Theater. He

made studies of sociometry at Sing Sing Prison in 1931. In 1936, he founded the Beacon

Hill Sanitarium, and the adjacent Therapeutic Theater. He

later held positions at Columbia University[9] and the New School for Social Research. In

1932, Moreno first introduced group psychotherapy to the American Psychiatric

Association, and co-authored the monograph Group Method and

Group Pschotherapy with Helen Hall Jennings. He

and Jennings were the first to use a stochastic network model (or, "chance

sociogram", as they called it), predating the Erdős–Rényi model and

the network model of Anatol Rapoport. For the next 40 years he developed

and introduced his Theory of Interpersonal Relations and tools for social

sciences he called 'sociodrama', 'psychodrama', 'sociometry', and 'sociatry'.

In his monograph entitled, "The Future of Man's World", he describes

how he developed these sciences to counteract "the economic materialism

of Marx, the psychological materialism of Freud, and the technological

materialism" of our modern industrial ag 

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