Why is psychodrama not more widely recognized?
It continues to be marginalized for a variety of reasons. 1. There are increasing numbers of competing forms of psychotherapy, new ones emerging every few years. 2. There is a continuing demand for “evidence-based” approaches, requiring hard research. Many forms of therapy are not readily amenable to more current requirements of research, while a few other approaches are more amenable–especially those that can be described in a manual. (The problem with such approaches is that they address some common denominators in most psychiatric problems, such as sloppy and self-defeating thought patterns. It is not surprising that tightening up thinking would be shown to be statistically effective in most problems, but that doesn’t mean it gets to the roots of the problem!) 3. Much of the writing in psychodrama–and especially Moreno’s own writing– becomes ever more out-of-date in its style and coherence. The demands for clarity have sharpened. 4. The method was most widely used in hospitals or cl
