title: Psychodynamic group psychotherapy.
abstract: The author provides an overview of critical factors in the working phase of group psychotherapy from the perspective of psychodynamic theory. The discussion is organized around a clinical vignette to illustrate various types of intervention such as past, here and now, future; individual, interpersonal, group as a whole; in group--out of group; affect-cognition; and understanding--corrective emotional experience. The critical "windows into the unconscious," transference, counter-transference, and free association, are also discussed in terms of the clinical example. The author concludes his article with a few thoughts about the future of psychodynamic theory in relationship to group treatments.
authors.affiliation: Center for Group Psychotherapy, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Rutan
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*