After nearly a century of practice, there is still no consensus among researchers and clinicians as to the definitions of such basic group therapy concepts as "structure", "development", and "self-help". Ironically this is due, in part, to the ubiquity of group practice across a wide range of therapeutic disciplines and schools of thought. Because of this, most reviews of group therapy tend to be intensely specific, the research they report reflecting only a very narrow slice of the vast knowledge base that has developed over the past century. A book whose time has come at last, Handbook of...