CURRENT STATUS OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICES IN THE STATE HOSPITALS FOR MENTAL DISEASE

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  • JOSEPH J. GELLER Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12926/7v7q4869

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PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

Much of the work in the development of group psychotherapy has been done in hospitals for mental disease, of which group 'the State Hospitals handle the great bulk of the patient population. In addition, the State Hospitals, with their fairly chronic conditions of being overcrowded and understaffed, have the impetus of dire necessity present to spur them on to the development and refinement of all possible psychotherapeutic techniques adaptable to their needs. On the basis of the important part group psychotherapy might thus be expected to play in the therapeutic armamentarium of the State Hospitals, it was felt that a survey of the current status of group psychotherapy practices in this group of hospitals would be valuabe

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2024-11-21