Blatner, Adam. “Moreno’s Process Philosophy.” Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry 38, no.3 (Fall 1985): 133-36.

Abstract

Author discusses important commonalities shared by the philosophical ideas implicit in the work of J.L. Moreno (1970) and A.N. Whitehead’s process philosophy. Moreno’s social psychological emphasis and his universalism are to be thought of as an intuitive extension of the process tradition that describes the interdependence of all things. Further parallels are drawn between Moreno’s concepts and the four basic ideas of process–viz., psychicalism, panentheism, creativity, and the world soul.

"The philosophical ideas implicit in the work of Dr. J.L. Moreno have some important commonalities with the academic tradition called "process Philosophy," and expressed most cogently by Alfred North Whitehead and his associates. Some of the ideas of these two systems could be integrated with benefit, and the theoretical basis of psychodrama and sociometry would be strengthened by having a more solid philosophical foundation."