title: On internalization in group psychology: the group within.
abstract: A review of the relevant psychoanalytic literature suggests that internalization processes are generally depicted as occurring only within the framework of the family. By contrast, the developmental psychology literature stresses the additional importance of internalized child and adolescent group experiences. Salient recollections from professionals' and patients' group life were offered to buttress the contention that gratifying as well as stressful group experiences are subject to internalization and to subsequent externalization, especially in the context of free-associative psychotherapy.
authors: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
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authors: Scheidlinger
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification