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The theory and practice of group psychotherapy
01 Jan 1970-
TL;DR: Yalom as mentioned in this paper described the course of therapy from both the patient's and the therapist's viewpoint in Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and Every Day gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy (1974).
Abstract: This book first appeared in 1970 and has gone into two further editions, one in 1975 and this one in 1985. Yalom is also the author of Existential Psychotherapy (1980), In-patient Group Psychotherapy (1983), the co-author with Lieberman of Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and with Elkin of Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy (1974) (which recounts the course of therapy from the patient's and the therapist's viewpoint). The present book is the central work of the set and seems to me the most substantial. It is also one of the most readable of his works because of its straightforward style and the liberal use of clinical examples.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the extent and variability of dependence in data taken from three previously published randomized clinical trials of group psychotherapy and found that the amount of depen-dence in the data was moderate.
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...Group intervention, including group psychotherapy, group-based self-help, and group psychoeducation, represents a large area of practice for treating a wide range of individuals suffering from health and mental health problems (Burlingame et al,, 2004; Yalom & Leszcz, 2005)....
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