THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

This first handbook of group psychotherapy is presented as examining "all basic aspects of group psychotherapy in the world today." It contains contributions from 154 authors, in several languages, mostly English, with a few in French, German and Spanish. It offers a global survey of current trends in group psychotherapy from fifty-one countries.
The book is a treasure-house of informative reports from university clinics, hospitals, prisons, teaching and training centers, and professional societies. Some of these reports are already well-known to readers of this Journal. Nevertheless, they serve as valuable refresher material. Combined with other contributors, their work goes far to dispel the widespread pessimism of conventional psychiatry towards certain troublesome behavior problems