STRUCTURE AND EFFECT OF SPONTANEOUS GROUP -FORMATIONS WITH PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PATIENTS IN AN HOSPITALIZED SETTING

Authors
RUFF W LEIKERT S
Citation
W. Ruff et S. Leikert, STRUCTURE AND EFFECT OF SPONTANEOUS GROUP -FORMATIONS WITH PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PATIENTS IN AN HOSPITALIZED SETTING, Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik, 30(3), 1994, pp. 262-275
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Social
Journal title
Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik → ACNP
ISSN journal
00174947
Volume
30
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
262 - 275
Database
ISI
SICI code
0017-4947(1994)30:3<262:SAEOSG>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Interpreting the data of their catamnestic study the authors demonstra te that for psychotherapeutic patients in a hospitalized setting spont aneous group-formation plays a vital and effective role in the therape utic process besides psychotherapy proper. Such group-formations stimu late regressive tendencies in the patients as well as their potential to working through. Several forms of group-formation and group-develop ment can be discerned, these can best be understood by the concept of mirror reaction (Foulkes).