Dynamics in hospital recovery of psychotics

Summary

Some dynamisms that appear to be part of the effecting agency of individual psychotherapy are presented; these can be noted in the varied techniques of psychotherapy; they appear to be subject to validation by an acceptable scientific methodology.

Some of the dynamisms of hospitalization and the hospital environment appear to be of a similar order to the dynamisms noted in individual psychotherapy. These factors have been utilized and are being utilized empirically throughout psychiatry at this time, but too little attempt has been made to systematize the techniques so that they can be employed to maximum efficiency. The development of a systematic methodology, based upon facts experimentally proved in individual therapy and animal experimentation, and then adapted to a broader methodology, offers a method by which a great body of otherwise inaccessible patients could receive active, dynamic psychotherapeutic benefits.