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For the inmates of mental hospitals group psychotherapy probably surpasses 'any other single contribution to our therapeutic armamentarium', especially when combined with individual treatment. It may at times be considered as an alternative to psychosurgery. Various types of groups and techniques are suitable for psychoneurotics, patients with primary behavior disorders, accessible psychotics,
long-term schizophrenics, alcoholics, and senile and epileptic patients. Group sessions are also useful for instruction of personnel and patients' relatives.