THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

This Handbook, representing the efforts of 153 contributors, is truly international in scope in several respects. Its authors have written in five different languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish; and they represent progress in group psychotherapy transpiring in 51 nations of the world. It is refreshing to find that this book deviates from the altogether too common and intellectually narrow approach of books in psychology published in this country, namely, that of restricting one's treatment to psychologists of the English-speaking world. Nor is this work narrow from the standpoint of its professional orientation, for its contributors represent a
wide range of interests: physicians, professors, clergymen; and within this list we find diversification extending to psychiatrists, psychologists, consultants, counselors, sociologists, research scientists, public health officials, neurologists, etc. Degrees of M.D. and Ph.D. dominate the group, yet we find interspersed other professional advanced degrees, such as, Ed.D., D.D., D.R., and B.D.