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This volume is one of the few that we have in the special field of group psychotherapy. It establishes itself as a balanced, objective and authoritative source book for those interested. The work of the Jewish Board of Guardians of New York in the field of child psychiatry utilizing the teamwork of psychiatrist, social worker and psychologist has merited the greatest respect. This volume is essentially the product of this same organization. It has pioneered in the development of group therapeutic approaches. For the most part the contributors are people connected with this organization.
The volume consists of papers originally presented at the conferences of the American Group Therapy Association between 1945 and 1947. Thanks must go to Slavson for some extremely able editing resulting in a volume which reads as if it were all written by one author. Whereas the thirteen chapters were written by at least a dozen collaborators among whom appear such well-known names as Van Ophuijsen, Nathan Ackerman, H. Spotnitz, J. W. Klapman and others.
Group therapy of various types has been a kind of applied psychoanalytic theory to groups of 2 or more. It is difficult to think of group therapy sans an analytic orientation. Without such an orientation, it could only be a dilute sort of stock-taking and catharsis with little to offer of permanent help to its subjects. Group therapy has widened the basis of