title: Group psychotherapy with inner-city grandmothers raising their grandchildren.
abstract: A year-long psychotherapy group consisting of two co-therapists and eight grandmothers who were parenting their daughters' children is presented. Three models that correspond to the co-therapists' psychoanalytic developmental orientation were used to describe the group phases of development. A number of themes that emerged at different points in the group's life are delineated. They include: authority, control, sibling rivalry, the generation gap, dealing with schools, illness and mortality, isolation, defensiveness, anger, fear of going crazy, guilt, shame, separation, and abandonment. Transference and countertransference issues are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Trauma Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Vardi
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Buchholz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002655:Child Custody; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D008489:Medical Indigency; D008875:Middle Aged; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D014505:Urban Population