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A Psycho-Analytic Approach to the Treatment of Patients in Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Henry Ezriel
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Dr. Rickman, in his address to-day, has raised the whole range of problems concerning the dynamics of groups. I think he has rightly drawn attention to the fact that “three-body” problems with which psychoanalysts are accustomed to deal form only part of the dynamics of a “multi-body,” a group, and that a fuller understanding of the dynamics of a multi-body is bound to influence our therapeutic technique.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 96 , Issue 404 , July 1950 , pp. 774 - 779
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1950 

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