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Research in clinical psychology: from the individual to the group

This article aims to outline a brief history of the research into Clinical Psychology, paying particular attention to the direction that this research is taking by way of a study centered around group relationships. We recognize the complexity in the therapeutic contexts that are presently available and which receive demands arising from increasingly larger groups, more expansive spaces and less specific environments. We can see that this history was characterized by a movement of flexibility in the clinical context towards accepting that the construction of meanings and senses that arise from the group therapy relationship, constitutes a valid source for discussion. Finally we would indicate the Sociatry of Jacob Levy Moreno as a proposal for the liberation of spontaneity-creativity which benefits the resolution of relational and social conflicts.

Psychodrama; Clinical psychology; Group psychotherapy


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