Short-Term Group Therapy of Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Abstract

IT has always been desirable to make special efforts to improve the reactions of patients to chronic illness. Since Pratt¹ originated a classroom treatment for tuberculous patients in 1906, group therapy has been applied to many medical syndromes. Among these were the efforts of Chappell et al.² to use group methods in regulating dietary regimens for patients with peptic ulcer. Buck³ tried to improve the adjustment of hypertensive patients, and Cholden⁴ worked with the blind. Harris,⁵ in 1939, reviewed the group work done up to that time, including data on group methods with undernourished children, diabetic patients, ante-partum and post-partum . . .