Main description:

Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the formation and beginning of psychotherapy groups and examines the treatment of a number of social problems through group therapy. Inevitably a product of the time in which it was written, this book nonetheless makes a valuable contribution to the history of group psychotherapy and will still be of interest to group psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, social scientists, social workers and group managers today.

Contents:

From the Editor. 1. Herbert M. Rabin Psychotherapy Groups: Formation and Beginnings 2. Max Rosenbaum The Psychoanalytic Group: Formation and Beginnings 3. Dorothy Stock Whittaker A Group Centred Approach 4. James M. Sacks The Psychodrama Group: Formation and Beginnings 5. Samuel B. Hadden The Homosexual Group: Formation and Beginnings 6. Edward M. Scott The Alcoholic Group: Formation and Beginnings 7. Isaac Z. Youcha Short-Term In-Patients Group: Formation and Beginnings. About the Authors.