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A Trial of Group Psychotherapy for Neurotics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Diana Bovill*
Affiliation:
St. Andrew's Hospital, Northampton

Extract

In peripheral hospitals and their crowded outpatient clinics many neurotics are treated, sometimes for a number of years, with sedatives or tranquillizers, a few words of sympathy and encouragement and, often electroplexy. The reasons often given for failure to offer psychotherapy are that it is of doubtful benefit or that it is too time-consuming.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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