Nascita dello Psychodrama - Birth of Psychodrama

Birth of Psychodrama: The picotecnica of Richard von Meerheimb, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others, through Central European culture between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Psychodrama is the German name that Richard von Meerheimb [1825-1896] and Rainer Maria Rilke [1875-1926] think out, at the end of the nineteenth century, to name their psychological monodramas. In psychodrama: a single actor dramatizes on the scene all the characters that materialize various themes of his own inner life. Psychodrama is so widespread in the Central-European cultural scene of the time that since 1894 a specialist journal is published regularly in Bremen dedicated exclusively to Psychodramen-Welt [the World, or the Vision, of Psychodrama]. Various other authors contributed significantly to the development of psychodrama in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially from the Central European area, including in particular: Goldfaden, Janet, Breuer, Stanislavskij, Evreinov. Subsequently, the psychodrama format was exported and relaunched with great effectiveness in the United States by Jacob Nissim Levi in art Moreno [1889-1974]. Usually, professionals of contemporary psychodrama ignore the actual origin of this fascinating psychological practice. To acquire greater awareness of the profound intellectual depth that characterizes psychodrama can help us to realize, with even greater clarity and efficacy, this fascinating yet sophisticated form of psicotecnica through psycho-theater. While it does not detract from the artistic grandeur of those who have been able to bring the tradition of psychodrama to the great prestige it enjoys in contemporary western psychological culture.