ABSTRACT
Group therapy is a wonderful modality for helping clients come to know themselves and their relationships with others, because it is a social microcosm of the family, society, and civilization. Group, by its design, creates an environment in which the real personality feels safe to emerge. It is in this emergence that the therapist and the members have the opportunity of helping individuals become aware of how they are affecting their environment and how their environment is affecting them. New behaviors generated from the group therapy experience, in comparison to individual psychotherapy, are more easily generalized to the "real world" due to the fact that group is a microcosm of society and the family. The therapeutic environment of individual psychotherapy, a one-one experience, is unique in the sense that one person is giving the other person his or her full attention for an hour, which is rare in the real world.
