Clinic's Theater Opens With Psychodrama Demonstration

"Religion has its churches, psychoanalysis has its couches--group work in psychology needs the stage of the psychodrama," J. L. Moreno, developer of the psychodrama declared at the dedication of the Psychological Clinic's new theater yesterday.

The theater an addition to the Clinic's Plympton Street building, was constructed during the summer. Henry A. Murray '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, will be its director.

Demonstration

After an introductory speech, Dr. Moreno picked two graduate students from the audience and put them through a brief impromptu act to demonstrate uses of the psychodramatic technique which he developed at Vienna 30 years ago. The point of the psychodrama, Moreno explained, is to create a situation in which the person can act spontaneously.

In this sort of theater, he said, "the subject is the playwright his life is the play."