Inpatient Group Psychotherapy.

YALOM, Irvin D.

$975.00

Item Number: 141494

New York: Basic Books, 1983.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Pat Irvin D. Yalom.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.

This essential book for front-line clinicians offers new ways of conceptualizing the techniques of group therapy for use on acute wards. Yalom makes a strong case for the efficacy of group therapy on all acute wards. He discusses how to structure the session and the kind of support that should be offered. The emphasis is on the here-and-now. He then presents two models of groups: one for the higher functioning and one for the more regressed psychotic patients.