Basic Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Group Counseling: Edited by George M. Gazda, Ed.D. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1968. 323 pp.

INNOVATIONS TO GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY. Edited by George M. Gazda, Ed.D. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1968. 310 pp.

In these two volumes the editor, George M. Gazda (Professor of Education at the University of Georgia and a faculty member of the Medical College of Georgia) has collected a useful group of papers which describe some basic and some new approaches to group therapy and group counseling. As is usual in such compilations, some of the contributions are good, and some are rather inadequate. But the books do render a distinct service in bringing together in a readily available form some of the older and newer methods used in the rapidly expanding field of group therapy. In the volume titled Basic Approaches to Group Psychotherapy and Group Counseling, Gazda, in his introductory chapter, gives a brief history of psychotherapy and attempts to define the terms 'group psychotherapy' and 'group counseling'. Unfortunately he does not succeed too well. Generally, group counseling and guidance are considered to be methods of discussing the group members' conscious, emotional reactions and attitudes to specific reality problems or difficulties. However, this becomes blurred in Gazda's as well as the other contributors' presentations.

Part One of the book deals with group psychotherapy and includes descriptions of five different group psychotherapeutic methods. J. L. Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, and D. A.