Alienation-Reduction in Brief Group Therapy
WILLIAM B. DONOVAN M.D.1, and
ROBERT C. MARVIT M.D.2
1 Staff psychiatrist, San Mateo County Mental Health Services Division. Department of Public Health and Welfare, 220 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo, Calif. 94402
2 Private practice in Honolulu, Hawaii
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.
