ABSTRACT
A parallel qualitative study which took into account the direct views of the participating patients who showed a rather different picture which reinforced the significant amount of the case study research demonstrating that art therapy had been and was important in the lives of people with the long-term schizophrenia. This was a five-year very well-funded project by the Health Technology Assessment, UK, looking at the use of art therapy with 400 patients with the long-term schizophrenia living in the community, to see if art therapy had an impact on negative symptoms. Montgomery drew's the attention to a meta-analytic review of the effectiveness of group psychotherapy in the treatment of depression in which 48 studies were examined. Kansas has reviewed the 43 controlled studies of the use of group therapy in schizophrenia and concluded that it has a positive effect on a range of outcome measures.
