PSYCHOANALYTICAL GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

In 1947, we had an opportunity of undertaking our first tests in group- psychotherapy for the child (9). At that time our only idea was to economize the efforts of the psychotherapists, due to the large number of children who had to be treated. There was a lack of foreign publications in France at the end of the second world war, and we knew only of Moreno's psychodrama by hearsay. Little by little a certain number of colleagues began to be interested in this kind of psychotherapy and the applications of psychodrama (8) (10) (2) 18).