ABSTRACT
While some people who hear voices will choose individual therapy for the feeling of safety, nurture and privacy it offers, group therapy can be empowering and helpful. Furthermore, Ellwood warns:
One-to-one therapy could be seen as potentially dangerous for a very damaged person, for whom the most threatening thing in the world would be to relate to one other human being, who would represent the dreaded other into whom all their worst fears and most hated aspects of themselves would be projected. Thus one-to-one therapy would be likely to bring out all their resistances in a very extreme way, which could result in the therapy being broken off and destroyed.
