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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.6.825

The authors describe a controlled study of patients in brief group therapy that was designed to determine whether this kind of therapy reduces alienation. They found that while alienated attitudes were not reduced, the participants became more sociable and content; affective and behavioral, but not attitudinal, components of alienation were affected.

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