Group Therapy with Mental Defectives
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e*tent, to psychotics, has mainly two aims. The first is of purely ^agnostic nature, for the behaviour of the patient during the group sessions, his reaction to the environment, and above all his individual response, is of diagnostic help. The second aim is therapeutic, for during the group session various therapeutic agencies are engendered ^hich may produce desirable changes in the psychological pattern ?f the patient. Although no therapy can change the basic personality of any Cental patient, it may be able to change the psychoneurotic or Psychotic overcast of which the neurotic or psychotic make-up Consists. Such changes may be caused by environmental agencies, bV cathartic efforts, by means of transference which, however, aPpears to be more complete in individual psychotherapy and, in Particular, in psycho-analysis. The agents within the frame of group therapy are manifold, ^ne of the most favoured agents is the individual discussion of the
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