GROUP THERAPY AS A MEANS OF SELF DISCOVERY FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN

Abstract

Sometimes we develop pertinent and penetrating insights by listening to the expressions of children and parents who observe relationships with sharpened sensitivity, especially when they reach any crisis in the home or in the school. "My mother just talks, talks, talks all the time. I think she doesn't even listen to herself," says ten-year-old Tom. "And you never can tell just what she will do next. I sometimes think she is as surprised as any of us when she finds out what she has done." «That kid is 'way out in space," Tom's father says. 'What he needs to learn is the fact that he lives on earth and he's just one of a lot of earth-bound people. He could listen to us once in a while. The novelty would do us all a lot of good