Group psychotherapy of the psychoses : concepts, interventions and contexts

Arguing that group psychotherapy is a particularly effective method of treatment for psychotic patients, Group Psychotherapy of the Psychoses draws together the world's leading exponents in a comprehensive exploration of theory and practice.

The contributors consider the development of the study of psychosis as well as the more recent advances in assessment, diagnosis and group treatment, covering such topics as:conceptual schema and models of the psychosesvariations of group therapy approaches and their effectivenessinterpretations and interventions with clientscoping with countertransference, counteridentification and counterresistancemultimodal treatment and the importance of contexttraining and supervisionproblems peculiar to groupstreatment in a therapeutic community.