Group psychotherapy with acutely disturbed psychotic patients.

Outcome studies in mental hospitals: A review.

“…A number of innovations have resulted in improvements in the inhospital adjustment of patients. Several studies (Feifel & Schwartz, 1953;Sacks & Berger, 1954;Semon & Goldstein, 1957) reported improvements in chronic patients treated with group psychotherapy. Activities (Anker & Walsh, 1961) and psychodrama (Jones & Peters, 1952) also resulted in patient improvement.…”

Group therapy techniques with hospitalized chronic schizophrenic patients.

“…These results are in the same direction as those obtained by Powdermaker and Frank [6, ch. XVII] and by Feifel and Schwartz [3].…”

“…Until recent years, the predominant approach to group treatment of hospitalized schizophrenic patients called for mass activities or didactic lectures [4,5,7,8,11], More recently, there has been an increased application of psychodynamic principles and techniques in group psychotherapy with psychotics [1,3,6], Most dynamic approaches to group psychotherapy have in common the expression and release of feelings, mutual understanding and emotional support, recognition of the individual's highly personalized needs, an opportunity for each member of the group to test his behavior, thinking, and feeling against the reality of his impact upon others, a sharing of common problems with others, and the cooperative working out of solutions to these problems with ultimate self-understanding and acceptance. The authors of this paper believe that the group treatment of psychiatric patients involves all of these elements and something in addition which is of crucial importance: the understanding and exploration of distortions in the perceptions and behavior of the patients in their interpersonal relationships.…”

An evaluation of the counseling of chronic schizophrenics.

“…Though there has been reference in the literature to the differences between chronic and acute schizophrenics (2,9,13), there has been little reported concerning therapeutic work with the chronic group (3,6,7,11,12). Singer and Goldman (12) found that group psychotherapy could be carried on successfully with chronics.…”