ABSTRACT
As a therapist working with severely traumatized children, I have always remembered that J. L. Moreno's early ideas about psychodrama came from watching children play. He drew inspiration from memories of his own early childhood play and his later observations in Vienna, during the first decade of the twentieth century, where he formed groups of children for impromptu play. This developed into the Theatre of Spontaneity and, eventually, into psychodrama (Moreno 1977).
