title: [Group psychotherapy. Institutional group psychotherapy with a realistic aim].
abstract: It is of great emotional impact to lose upper or lower limbs; adequate psychological handling of such a loss is described. Mourning will bary if amputation was programmed or carried out without warning. In the group, individual conflict, depression and the problem of function loss are handled, more than problems of the patient vis-a-vis the institution. Characteristics of the group are described.
mesh_terms: D000673:Amputation, Traumatic / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012114:Residential Treatment
vernacular_title: Psicoterapia en grupos. Psicoterapia institucional en grupo con meta concreta.