Rachelle Banchevska, our Corresponding Editor, has submitted an extensive report on
group therapy in the various States of Australia. In Victoria there is the Observatory Clinic for …

During the war the necessity of treating large numbers of patients suffering from not very
deep-seated psychoneuroses led to renewed attempts to practise group therapy. This had …

Scheidlinger's collection of essays put together from various American journals and chapters
from pre viously published books, gives a quite wide-ranging survey of group …

The authors in the preface state that" the book has been written to serve as an aid in the
development and concep tualization of group programmes for adolescents in all kinds of …

In addz" tt" on to the books reviewed below, two others are worthy of comment. Explorations
in Child Psychiatry by E.]. Anthony is, as is anything that comes from his pen, an erudite and …

Neither of these conditions appear to be adequately fulfilled in the Children's Department of
the Davidson Clinic, for the following reasons: The Children's Department is relatively small …

Group treatment is a comparatively new branch of psychotherapy and, as most new
methods, had to pass through its" childhood" and to get over a few" children's ailments" …

BOOK REVIEWS The Fields of Group Psychotherapy. Edited by SR Slavson.(New York: Int.
Universities Press Inc., 1956. 338 pp. $6.00.) This book is stated by its Editor to be an …

The First International Congress of Group Psychotherapy was held in Toronto, Canada,
August 12-20, 1954, in association with the Fifth International Congress of Mental Health …

The progress of two therapy groups for university students is described. Some difficulties
were encountered in their organisation and in the selection of group members. There were …