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The Emmanuel Movement

The Origins of Group Treatment and the Assault on Lay Psychotherapy

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$20.95 • £16.95 • €19.00

ISBN 9780674251113

Publication Date: 03/01/1998

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  • 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
  • About the Author

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