What is the difference between drama therapy and psychodrama?
There have been many professional articles and discussions debating this question. Briefly, psychodrama theory and methodology were developed by psychiatrist and improvisational theater director, Jacob L. Moreno. The first psychodrama was enacted in Vienna in 1925 and the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy was formed in 1942. The National Association of Drama Therapy was founded in 1979 by actors/clinicians coming together with an eclectic mix of theories and methodologies. Both psychodrama and drama therapy use dramatic enactment as a vehicle for growth. Some practitioners argue that there is no difference between drama therapy and psychodrama. Others consider psychodrama to be one approach to drama therapy.
