Clint Eastwood's Psychodrama

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Jonathan D Moreno, What the Chair Could Have Told Clint; The actor missed an opportunity for theraeutic insight. New York Times, Sept 1, 2012 (op-ed).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/0 ... clint-eastwood.html

Two consecutive paragraphs:

"When Mr [Clint] Eastwood set up a chair next to the podium and used it in an imaginary dialogue with the president, I recognized it as a technique from psychodrama — the psychotherapy my father, the psychiatrist J L Moreno, started developing nearly 100 years ago.

"Therapists often use the 'empty chair' as a way of orienting a patient to a particular relationship. 'Here’s your mom,' they might say. 'What would you say to her if she were here, right now?' The empty chair can be a very powerful warm-up to a problematic situation, a way of concretizing dormant, suppressed or abstract emotions in an important or troubling relationship. Used properly, it can lead to insight.

Note: Jacob L Moreno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_L._Moreno
(Jacob Levy Moreno (born Iacob Levy, Bucharest, Romania, 1889; died New York, USA, 1974)