THE EXPERIENCING OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

Whatever the inner experiencing, or emotional meaning, of group psychotherapy is to the people who look to it for help, it seems to be a realm of systematic ignorance to psychologists. And yet, there also seems to be an implicit assumption in discussing group psychotherapy in terms of observed behaviors that these behaviors experientially mean something to the people participating. It is on this assumption that group psychotherapists work; it is this experientially something that they are trying to facilitate. This study is an exploratory attempt to delineate this experience in some identifiable relationship to observed behavior