Preface

The Emmanuel Movement and the Origins of Group Psychotherapy

The Founding Father: Elwood Worcester (1862-1940)

The New England Tradition of "Medical Psychotherapy" and Its Turn-of-the-Century Practitioners

Joseph Hersey Pratt and the Origins of Group Therapy

The Beginnings of the Emmanuel Movement (1906-1929)

Growth and Expansion of the Emmanuel Movement (1906-1909)

Reorganization and Decline, 1909-1929

Worcester's Retirement and Successors to the Emmanuel Movement

The Worcester Family, 1940 to the Present

The Emmanuel Movement in Retrospect: Summary and Conclusions

Notes

Index

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