Review of GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY, THEORY AND PRACTICE

Reviews the book, Group Psychotherapy, Theory and Practice by J. W. Klapman (1946). The ability of the group to help redirect the psychoneurotics' tendency toward repeated frustration into channels of realization or sublimation of his desires has focused more interest on the group as a mechanism of therapy. Klapman, like Giles Thomas, has attempted to correlate and tabulate the experiences of a growing number of investigators. To a number of therapists, well grounded in dynamic principles and with experience in working with groups in other situations, the book will be stimulating and sourceful. To many others who have been accustomed to think in terms of the individual alone, this presentation will be both disappointing and confusing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)