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GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH ALCOHOLICS*
Author(s) -
ESSER P. H.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1961.tb05320.x
Subject(s) - psychotherapist , group psychotherapy , psychology , similarity (geometry) , group (periodic table) , computer science , artificial intelligence , chemistry , organic chemistry , image (mathematics)
While the more complex aspects of the alcoholic's difficulties should be dealt with in individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy can be of great help as a means of altering behaviour. The members of a group may have their own particular problems, nevertheless they do have one major problem in common, the alcohol problem. This similarity of pathology makes them suitable for group psychotherapy, and accelerates the therapeutic process. The experience of one applies to others and therefore “evokes responses and memories in all” (Slavson).