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.
Dr. Yalom has once again found the right subject and handled it in his usual thorough, readable, exciting style. He is an advocate for hospital group therapy who speaks from long and direct experience. Dr. Yalom has written an eminently practical guide to what works, generously spiced with examples of patient-therapist interchanges, which ring true to life. His methods are interpersonal and especially tailored to short-term work in tumultuous, high-volume settings.
Marc Hertzman, M.D., Director of Inpatient Services, George Washington University Medical Center Like Dr. Yaloms
Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, this book is destined to be the standard text for inpatient group therapy. A rational, relevant, and timely manual closely attuned to the new realities of the clinical practice of inpatient group therapy within the context of the changes occurring in the psychiatric hospital of the 1980s. Necessary reading for all those referring or trl3,
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