Therapeutic Factors in Interactional Inpatient Groups: Results from a Turkish Sample

Therapeutic factors in an inpatient group from Turkey are presented, A total of 40 patients were seen over a period of 2 years and each patient was given Yalom's (1983) 60-item therapeutic factor list on discharge. The first four most valued therapeutic factor groups were Catharsis, Existential Factors, Cohesiveness and Hope. There were significant differences in the highly valued factors in different diagnostic groups. Patients with diagnoses of anxiety/somatization and borderline/identity problem preferred factors resembling those in many outpatient studies. The results are discussed in the light of relevant literature.