Introduction

This chapter discusses the pioneer of interpersonal relations in the fields of sociometry, group therapy, psychodrama, and sociodrama, entered the domain of family therapy when he published "Inter-personal Therapy and the Psychopathology of Inter-personal Relations". A full and definitive exposition of psychodrama as a systemic therapy was undertaken by Anthony Williams when he defined its techniques and its rationale in the language of systems and cybernetics. Psychodrama can be regarded as a medium for proliferating perspectives and making available multiple ways of defining phenomena. Psychodrama exploits the abundance of possible ideas, feelings, and actions to create opportunities to determine the manner by which these can be interrelated. Psychodrama is par excellence a "marker of contexts" insofar as the stage is precisely the place to create and shift contexts. Psychodrama is regarded as a method of treating an individual and a group concurrently.