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The techniques of self help in psychiatric after-care
Volume I: Recovery's Self-Help Techniques, History and Description [136 pp] Volume II: Group Psychotherapy: A Record of Class Interviews with Patients Suffering from Mental and Nervous Ailments [88 pp] Volume III: Lectures to Relatives of Former Patients [125 pp] The three books under discussion are not separate treatises but are continuations of one another and deal in the main with two problems: group psychotherapy and the menial hygiene care of patients after discharge from mental hospitals. Since the first world war psychiatry may be said to have passed from the strictly symptomatic and custodial type of treatment of mental illness and is attempting something by way of effective psychotherapy. From the standpoint of such treatment the problem forever confronting the psychiatric hospital is the small size of the staff that can devote its full time to psychotherapy as compared...