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The Question Of Casualities In Inpatient Small Group Psychoterapy

Portland VA Medical Center

The issue of whether group psychotherapy is harmful to some inpatients, although significant, is meaningless in the absence of further specification of what is being done with whom. The question of therapeutic "casualties" deserves more than the passing attention it has received in the research literature. Although there exists a clinical folklore regarding patients who must be protected from group therapy, the conceptual and empirical grounds for such decisions are exceedingly shaky if not nonexistent.

Small Group Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, 443-458 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/104649648701800401


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