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Group therapy is based on mediated interindividual relationships and therefore represents a serious challenge for the treatment of anorexia nervosa patients, because the first effect of this type of treatment is to exacerbate relational difficulties. Nevertheless, starting after the crisis period, group therapy has demonstrated its interest in a multimodal intervention and its relevance as a treatment associated with individual therapy. The author regrets that this technique is rarely used and suggests that its rejection is based on a priori opinions more than on actual experience.

Group therapy for psychotic patients, specially schizophrenic ones, is an increasing indication. Nonetheless, the results of the papers published on that matter are still far from proving its efficacy in a definite way. The possibility of good or bad use of such a prescription is discussed related to an experience of six years with this technique at the Subdivision of Psychiatry, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.