EARLIEST DEFINITIONS OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

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  • J.L. MORENO Author

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https://doi.org/10.12926/j99qyf87

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PSYCHOTHERAPY

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Definition 1: "A method which protects and stimulates the self-regulating mechanism of natural groupings. It attacks the problem through the use of one man as the therapeutic agent of the other, of one group as the therapeutic agent of the other? From Application of the Group Method to Classification, p. 104, 1932.

Definition 2: The groups function for themselves and the therapeutic process streams through their mutual interrelationships." From the same publication, p. 61.

Definition 3: "Group psychotherapy is the result of well calculated, spontaneous therapy plus proper social assignment. . . . The leader is withinthe group, not a person outside." Same publication, p. 9 4 .

Definition 4: ' I t will be advantageous for persons who do not recover by themselves or through some form of psychological analysis or medication, but only through the interaction of one or more persons who are so coordinated to the patient that the curative tendencies within are strengthened and the disparaging tendencies within checked, so that he may influence the members of his group in a similar manner." Ibid., p. 97.

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2024-11-29

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (1958): Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, and Sociometry

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