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

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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 . . .

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