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Emotional Growth Despite Psychosis: A Friendship Group for Married Schizophrenics
Author(s) -
Firestone Andrew
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0156-8779
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1980.tb00011.x
Subject(s) - friendship , psychology , psychosis , group (periodic table) , group process , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , chemistry , organic chemistry
A group was formed of friendless couples, selected from an outpatient clinic for chronic schizophrenics, with the aim of promoting a friendship network. The group was semi‐closed and functioned for nearly two years. The leaders' aims were met, the group terminating after a secure friendship network had formed. Phases of the group process are described and the value and limitations of such groups discussed.