PATIENTS' REACTIONS TO GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

Abstract

For over 17 years I have been conducting group therapy, first in a State Hospital setting, then in my private psychiatric office. At the present time I have 6 groups.
I asked people in the groups to write down for me their reactions to what group therapy means to them and what they look for in it. This paper is a combined verbatim record of what some 15 percent of group members wrote about what happened in their groups.