This paper illustrates the application of Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Theory of Nursing to group psychotherapy. The phases of the nurse-patient relationship, including orientation, identification, exploitation and resolution, are described as they relate to group psychotherapy, and clinical examples are presented. The clinical examples also demonstrate the patient's movement in group therapy through the steps of the learning process: observation, description, analysis, formulation, validation, testing, integration and utilization. Finally, the roles of the nurse including stranger, resource person, teacher, leader, surrogate and counsellor are described as they occur in group psychotherapy.

The question of n u m h n g psychotherapy is no longer whdher, buf how. Here is a dimrssiaz of the h i s t q and trends, an assessment of published research, and a summry cfpttems in the Ziferature which have reflected and promafed this direction in one-to m e ysychbtric nursing. c h a n g e and growth within a profession do not come easily. Nursing, a relatively young profession, is still+ it has been almost since its inception-in a state of tremendous flwc and uncertainty.

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