title: Intersubjectivity, social microcosm, and the here-and-now in a support group for nurses.
abstract: Intersubjectivity, a concept from Watson's nursing model is interwoven with the group dynamics of social microcosm and the here-and-now. Examples from a graduate nursing student's clinical experience illustrate the application of a transpersonal dynamic, formerly associated with dyads, to interactions between a nurse and a support group. A psychiatric consultation liaison nurse specialist student facilitates a support group for registered nurses in a neurological intensive care unit, in response to a group-perceived need to improve communications between nurses, nurses and patients, and nurses and physicians. Discovery and processing of hidden anger and pain activates healing for these nurses.
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Nursing, Honolulu, USA.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Brandman
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D003142:Communication; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D012657:Self-Help Groups