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Group Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Sidney Bloch
Sidney Bloch*
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The Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
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Group psychotherapy is perhaps a misleading term and the concept of the group psychotherapies probably better represents the broad range of psychological treatments in psychiatry in which the group process is an essential component: from psychotherapy with a married couple to the large community group meeting in a psychiatric hospital. Group psychotherapy most commonly refers to the long-term treatment of neurotic out-patients in small groups, and this will be my main focus. Marital and family therapy have their own distinctive literatures, while the therapeutic community has been well covered in a previous column (Mandelbrote, 1979).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 138 , Issue 2 , February 1981 , pp. 167 - 168
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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