Windows into Today's Group Therapy

The National Group Psychotherapy Institute of the Washington School of Psychiatry

George Max Saiger, Sy Rubenfeld, Mary D. Dluhy, George Max Saiger, Sy Rubenfeld, Mary D. Dluhy

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN: 9781138881693
• eBook ISBN: 9781135904203
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The Washington School of Psychiatry in Washington, D.C. has long been on the leading-edge of theoretical changes in psychotherapy, having offered a certification program in group psychotherapy, The Group Psychotherapy Training Program since the mid-1960's. This program trained a generation of skilled group psychotherapists and formed a model for comprehensive group training. In 1994 the National Group Psychotherapy Institute emerged from this program. With an emphasis on experiential and didactic learning, the Institute continues the tradition of challenging the frontiers of psychodynamic group psychotherapy.

This volume is a collection of papers by the Institute members and reflects the mission and recent research and developments of the Institute. Originally delivered by faculty members and visiting presenters at the Washington School of Psychiatry, they represent the various vertices from which modern group psychotherapy can be studied. Organized according to theoretical position, the volume contains work by the top group theorists and clinicians in the field. Windows into Today's Group Therapy would provide both an important historical perspective on group therapy as a response to managed care as well as a timely collection of the leading research in the field today.

Index

A

Abstinence, 175–176

Acting out, 100–104

Adlerian psychology, 159

Affective disclosure, 140

Affiliation, 211

Agazarian, Yvonne, 19, 77–78

Agazarian’s systems-centered group therapy, 35–39

vs. Dr. Aledort’s therapist-centered group psychoanalysis, 31–34

Aggression, 33

self psychology, 246

Aggressiveness, 246

AK Rice Group Relations conferences, 51

Aledort, Stewart, 19, 171

Aledort’s therapist-centered group psychoanalysis, 31–34

Alexander, Franz, 115

Alienation, 246

Alonso, Anne, 171

Alterego, 208

Alterity, 67

Ambiguity in group psychoanalysis, 183–184

Ambivalence, 187–188

American Group Psychotherapy Association, 6, 264

American Psychological Association‘s Division of Clinical Psychology, 260

Analytic attitude, 197

Analytic cultures, 177–190

Analytic group psychotherapy, 191–198

Andrews-Sachs, Maryetta, 113

Anger, 246

Antagonism, 211

Anthony, James, 40

Anxiety, 121–137, 185, 193

depressive, 97, 107

manic defenses, 99

regression to schizoparanoid position, 199

generalized, 262

intimacy, 71

melancholic-like, 104–106

paranoid, 97

psychotic-like, 97–98

weaken, 26

Applied relaxation, 262

Area of the illusion, 98

Assertion, 211

Attachment, 211

Attribution

meaning, 9, 10

me vs. not me, 47

Attunement, 130, 194

Authentic self, 199

Authority, 51

Autistic phase, 252

B

Bacal, Howard, 251

Bad objects, 97

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Overview and Underpinnings
• Systems-Centered Approaches
• Introduction to a Theory of Living Human Systems and Systems-Centered Practice
• Some Comments on the Similarities and Contrasts Between Dr. Agazarian’s Systems-Centered Therapy and Dr. Aledort’s Therapist-Centered Group Psychoanalysis
• Panel Discussion of Dr. Agazarian’s Presentation of Systems-Centered Group Therapy
• Group Analysis and the Study of Maturity
• On Identity as Multiple and Basic Assumption
• Containment and the Threat of Catastrophic Change in Psychotherapy Groups
• Object Relational and Lacanian Approaches
• Group Analysis and Intimacy: A Whole-Group Approach
• The Group-as-a-Whole Approach in Foulkesian Group Analytic Psychotherapy
• Chaos and Desire: The Simple Truth of the Unconscious in the Psychoanalytic Group
• Introduction to Object Relations Group Psychotherapy
• Interpersonal Approaches
• Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy
• Anxiety, Courage, and Healing
• The Interpersonal Approach to Group Psychotherapy
• Existential Group Psychotherapy
• Some Thoughts on the Existential Lens in Group Psychotherapy
• Notes on April 23, 1995: The Existential Lens
• Psychoanalytic Approaches
• Theories Are Ideas
• A Model for the Development of an Analytic Culture in Intensive Multiweekly Group Psychoanalysis
• The Dream in Analytic Group Therapy
• Self Psychology in Group Psychotherapy
• A Brief Introduction to Self Psychology
• Beyond the Dyad: An Evolving Theory of Group Psychotherapy
• Toward Optimum Group Placement from the Perspective of the Self or Self-Experience
• Anger in Group Therapy: A Self Psychological Perspective
• Working With Intersubjectivity
• Conclusion
• Researchers, Third-Party Payers, and the Singular Group Therapist
• Index