Abstract
The fundamental principles of short-term psychotherapy are presented in reference to psychotic patients. Emphasis is placed on empirical hermeneutical research into group process within the phenomenological approach. This is followed by a case study of shortterm psychotherapy with psychotic patients. A four-stage approach to short-term therapy is outlined and illustrated. The advantages of a sound knowledge of group process on the part of therapists are discussed, as are the advantages of the idiographic approach to group process research.
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