EVALUATION OF TOPICS IN THERAPY GROUP DISCUSSION.

The article discusses on the evaluation of topics in therapy group discussion. It is hardly surprising that content analysis in therapeutic group discussion should have produced no significant results. On the one hand, psychoanalytically oriented therapists tend to hold the view that for the purposes of group psycho-therapy any topic is as useful as any other, that it is not what patients say that matters, but how or in what context they say it. Patients do show marked preferences when asked to rank topics of discussion for their helpfulness in group therapy. They also agree among themselves to a considerable extent on which topics are more, which less helpful. In fact, they do not confirm the dictum that any topic is as useful for therapeutic discussion as any other.