SOCIOMETRY AND GROUP THERAPY IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL
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The question, what psychological conditions underlie the long term living together and group formation of the mentally ill, and the problems of a systematic group therapy in psychiatric institutions have recently begun to become the object of scientific investigation. Stimulated by a visit from Moreno, we have worked since June, 1957, along sociometric and group therapy lines in a large closed women's ward for the mentally ill. It is known that the patients in such a ward do not live beside each other without interpersonal relationships. Rather, this "forced community of sick people" (Friedemann) is full of interpersonal relationships which we attempted
to make visible through sociometric methods and to employ therapeutically. Besides, we have led group discussions with patients who
were both able and willing. In the field of German institutional psychiatry we owe thanks to Merguet for the impulse toward the extension of psychotherapeutic possibilities through group discussions.
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