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Group Work in Mental Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Maxwell Jones
Maxwell Jones*
Affiliation:
Dingleton Hospital, Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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Many mental hospitals are practising some form of group treatment either intra- or extra-murally or both. (Martin, 1962; Clark, 1964; Freeman and Farndale, 1961). Thus, ward meetings with as many as 60 patients and staff (Jones and Hollingsworth, 1963), small therapeutic groups of selected patients limited to 8 or 10 individuals (Foulkes and Anthony, 1965), family groups involving single families or several families taken as one group, follow-up groups with ex-patients and many other patterns are being developed. Most of the literature available and most of the training is based on the classical model (Bion, 1961) of the psychoanalytically-orientated group of selected patients, mainly cases of psycho-neurosis and character disorders, who have been suitable for this type of therapy.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 491 , October 1966 , pp. 1007 - 1011
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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