Psychothérapies de groupe : étude exploratoire en Suisse

Group psychotherapists: professional and cultural differences

“…Psychiatrists more often practise a type of group therapy which has been used since the end of the Second World War (with adults, a longer duration, in private practice and with a psychodynamic orientation). In the future, new norms for training, growing economic pressure and a tendency to favour shortterm therapies rather than long psychodynamic therapies will undoubtedly influence the evolution Introduction A survey which we have carried out and whose overall results will be published shortly, furnishes information on the group practices of Swiss psychotherapists [1]. As psychiatrists and psychologists differ in their basic training, functions and forms of professional activity, they might also differ in their practice of group activities and their theoretical orientations in this area.…”