title: Things I have learned: 45+ years of group psychotherapy.
abstract: The noted humorist Dave Barry, in looking back over his life and thinking of things he had learned, said one of the things he learned was that "There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'" (1998, p. 182). Following in Dave Barry's path, I would like to look back over the 45+ years I've been practicing group therapy and see if there is anything to be learned by what I have learned over those years.
authors.affiliation: Senior Faculty, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.
authors.forename: J Scott
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Rutan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*