A New Form of Group Psychotherapy *Summary of paper given at the Royal Society of Medicine on December 16th, 1943.

* iie experiment which this paper rec?r^.^. mental form of social clubs, two of them m a p t.patient hospital and four attached to *he <fjathem Apartments of voluntary hospitals, teaching hospitals. n We started with a club for in-patients at u with three main ideas in our minds. (a) Patients robbed of their freedom on entering an institution would probably improve if they were given at least the illusion of temporary freedom in the club. (b) Patients might improve more quickly and relapse less readily if trained whilst in hospital to mix with other people in varied forms of social life which encouraged them to take responsibility and to use their own initiative. Summary of paper given at the Royal Society of Medicine on December 16th, 1943.