INTERNATIONAL GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY (IGP), A GLOBAL REVIEW, VoL. I, No. 3,

Abstract

The global spread of the group psychotherapy movement and its rapid growth as a universal therapeutic science has made it urgent to elaborate in greater detail the meaning of the concepts and operations involved in group psychotherapy. Group psychotherapy comprises a multitude of apparently widely differing methods: interpersonal therapy, milieu therapy, family therapy, work therapy, group analysis, socioanalysis, group psychodrama, role playing, T group, therapeutic community, to mention but a few. If they are to be identified as various forms of group psychotherapy, what do all these methods have in common?