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The Group as Therapist

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Group psychotherapy is often assumed to be inferior to individual psychotherapy. The author's initial experience of group therapy - as an observer - led her to question this assumption. This work describes the classic analytic group and demonstrates its potential benefits for members. This classic group model is then applied to schizophrenics, couples and multiple family groups, median groups and groups with psychotic and borderline personalities, using examples from the author's own clinical experience to illustrate how group therapy can benefit these populations. The author goes on to examine the role of the analytic group in ethical relating and the development of a sense of duty and moral sensitivity in the light of theories of Money-Kyrle and Piaget. Her conclusion is that the analytic group goes further than Kant in the ethics of interpersonal relating, replacing his listed codes of duty with empathy, reciprocity and love.
Foreword, by Pat de Mare. Foreword by Malcolm Pines. Introduction: Why group psychotherapy? Part One: Perspectives on group analytic theory. 1. A view of psychotherapy. 2. Models of therapeutic systems. 3. The group as open system. 4. Aspects of the group relationship. 5. The individual and the group. Separateness and belonging. 6. The group and perception. 7. The view from different perspectives. 8. The person of the therapist. Part Two: Special kinds of groups. 9. Groups with psychotic and borderline personalities. 10. The multiple family therapy group. 11. The case for the Therapeutic Community. 12. The couples group. 13. The median group. Part Three: Ethics and the group. 14. Towards ethical relating. References. Index.
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