Bibliography of Psychodrama © Inception to Date 2007

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Compiled and updated by James M. Sacks
Contributions by
Jeanine Gendron
Marie-Therese Bilaniuk

Dear User,

This international bibliography of psychodrama is available to anyone with Internet access. It is the fruit of an attempt to compile an exhaustive list of citations of scientific works on psychodrama since its creation by J. L. Moreno. It now contains some 5,600 entries, There are surely numerous errors of omission and commission. I would like to request that users who discover these errors, send corrections to: Jim Sacks jmsacks@mindspring.com. I would, also, like to request that authors whose own publications are absent, incomplete or inaccurate, please, inform me so that colleagues around the world may have access to your work. When submitting references, please include the following items:

  1. Author's or authors' names including the given name(s) if known.
  2. The year of publication. Writings in press are not included but may be submitted as soon as possible afterwards
  3. The full title of the book, chapter or article in its original language. If the language uses a non-Latin alphabet, please substitute an English transliteration.
  4. If the original language is not English, include a translation of the title into English.
  5. For chapters in edited books, include the name of the chapter, the name and author(s) / editor(s) of the book, the city in which the book was published and the name of the publisher or publishing company.
  6. For articles in journals, include the name of the journal, volume number and page listing.

The user may find citations that do not include all of the information listed above. Some information is better than none since the user may still be able to locate the desired article on the basis of whatever clues are available. Any scholarly writing, which deals directly and explicitly with psychodrama, is included regardless of its point of view. The psychodrama literature blends gradually into several adjacent fields especially, sociometry, role-playing, simulation techniques, drama therapy, theater games and group psychotherapy. This required somewhat arbitrary decisions in determining what to include. Citations based on "psychodrama" used in a sense other than Morenean psychotherapy and its outgrowths, are not included, e.g. a certain movie genre, etc. Some of the literature in Dramatherapy and Playback Theater as close enough cousins are included. Theater games, the general literature on role-playing and improvisational theater are considered beyond the scope of this collection, as is that of pure sociometry.

The copious writings of Dr. Jacob L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, cover a broad range of subjects including religion, philosophy, group psychotherapy and sociometry in addition to psychodrama. His work on psychodrama is closely intertwined with his work as a whole. I have included here, only the citations most obviously about psychodrama. The reader is, therefore, strongly advised to consult Paul Hare's definitive bibliography of the total corpus of Moreno's work.1

This collection was begun combining three previous collections:

  1. Valerie Greer & James. M. Sacks (1973). Bibliography of Psychodrama.
  2. Jeanine Gendron. (1980). Moreno: The Roots and the Branches, and Bibliography of Psychodrama, 1972-1980.
  3. Marie-Therese Bilaniuk (1991). Bibliography of Psychodrama, 1980-1990.

With the help of many others the bibliography was greatly expanded. Adam Blatner has provided many leads to international literature that otherwise might have slipped through the cracks. I am indebted to Peter Haworth for many of the British references, Chris Hosking for the Australian and Gábor Pintér for the Hungarian. Antonio José Emaixador Marques and Esly Regina Carvalho contributed generously in translating the numerous Portuguese and Spanish titles and Hans-Werner Gessmann kindly gave permission to include the contents of his Bibliographie deutschspachiger Psychodramaliteratur in this international list. Ulrike Sacks helped in translating Dutch, French, German, Italian and Russian titles. All these people contributed much time, linguistic skill, and good humor and their contributions are deeply appreciated. Thanks especially to Tom Treadwell who arranged the presentation of this bibliography on the Internet.

James M. Sacks

 

1 Hare, A. Paul. (1986a). Bibliography of the Work of J. L. Moreno. Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama & Sociometry, 39, 95-128

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