The democratic therapeutic and training communities of the Open Psychotherapy Centre: A multifactorial communal approach

Abstract

This paper describes the structure, function and effectiveness of a multifactorial communal approach which is applied in the therapy department and the four training institutes of the Open Psychotherapy Centre in Athens. The therapeutic philosophy of this approach is based on the principles of group analysis, therapeutic community and emprosopon psychotherapy which are applied in combination with each other.

Keywords:

• multifactorial
• training
• emprosopon
• sociotherapy
• group analysis