AN OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY MOVEMENT

Abstract

Group psychotherapy, in one form or another, bas become the most popular form of psychotherapy of our time. The movement has taken global proportions. It is practiced in the western countries as well as in the communist countries whereas psychoanalysis is limited to the West. Because of intervening forces however, its international recognition is still unclear and its theoretical foundations are controversial. The question is: which forces have blocked its development and hindered it from attaining the universal, scientific approval and honor which it deserves.