GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

It is not so long ago that the only kind of mental institution was the mental hospital or "asylum" and its major aim was sequestration, a heritage of the days when mental illness was- associated with ideas of demoniacal possession. In a larger historical perspective the change in the atmosphere of the mental hospital from the aim of sequestration to therapy will appear extremely rapid, perhaps even sudden, but to the contemporary eye the pate seems tiresomely pedestrian