ABSTRACT
There have been criticisms by some that Moreno’s writing was not scientific enough, by others, that his writing was too technical. However, both these areas of concern continued to influence Moreno throughout his life. He himself saw the publication of Das Stegreiftheater in 1923 as marking the point at which he adopts a more scientific approach in his writing:
Das Stegreiftheater marked in my work the beginning of a new period; the transition from religious to scientific writing. It initiated many characteristics found in my later work, such as the emphasis on measurement and charting of inter-personal communication, movement diagram, on operational procedure and situational analysis. As such it was a forerunner to the sociogram, the social atom diagram, the role diagram, the action sociogram etc.
(J.L.Moreno 1947:1)