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The author offers the concept of bridging to integrate a variety of techniques used by group psychotherapists to strengthen the emotional bonds among group members. After documenting the need for therapeutic bridging, and highlighting its principal aims, the author illustrates a number of methods, including open-ended and direct questions, and invitations to group members to elicit more generalized interaction among group participants. In this way, the therapeutic potential of the group can be optimized.
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Louis R. Ormont (1990) studied this question.
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