Inpatient Group Psychotherapy [Hardcover]

This essential book for front-line clinicians offers new ways of conceptualizing the techniques of group therapy for use on acute wards. Yalom makes a strong case for the efficacy of group therapy on all acute wards. He discusses how to structure the session and the kind of support that should be offered. The emphasis is on the here-and-now. He then presents two models of groups: one for the higher functioning and one for the more regressed psychotic patients.

Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the 1974 Edward Strecker Award and the 1979 Foundation's Fund Prize in Psychiatry. He is the author ofWhen Nietzche Wept(winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Club gold medal for fiction),Love's Executioner,Every Day Gets a Little Closer(with Ginny Elkin), and the classic textbooksInpatient Group PsychotherapyandExistential Psychotherapy.