ABSTRACT

Rudolph Dreikurs, eminent psychiatrist, and pupil and former collaborator with Alfred Adler, brought a most humanistic approach to the understanding of being human into the arena of group therapy. R. J. Corsini's orientation was Adlerian and he believed from his studies with Dreikurs that group was of great value for change. Corsini and B. Rosenberg felt that there existed a paucity of agreement in the many psychological paradigms about what variables were necessary for psychological change and effective therapy due to the use of different terminologies. S. R. Slavson is considered to be the father of group therapy in America and the founder of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. Although Louis Ormont name is not as well known as those of previous researchers, he has contributed greatly to group psychotherapy through his many well-written and effective monographs.