Abstract
This year’s APA Convention in San Francisco was something of a homecoming for the division, for it was in that same city, some 18 years ago, that group psychology and group psychotherapy first took the stage as a newly founded division within APA. Only a few months earlier this fledgling coalition of dedicated supporters of group approaches had successfully petitioned APA for official divisional recognition. As that petition explained, it was time for psychologists to focus on groups and group-based approaches to adjustment, arguing that there “are two basic psychological approaches to human life and to mental health; one through individual psychology, the other through group psychology” (quoted in Andronico, 1999, p. 179).
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2007
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2008 Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy. This article first appeared in The Group Psychologist 17:3 (2007), 5.
Recommended Citation
Forsyth, Donelson R. "The Purpose of Our Efforts." The Group Psychologist 17 (November 2007): 5.