An analytic group psychotherapy session: interpretations and hidden texts.
This article describes what happened with the participants and the group as a whole in an analytical group psychotherapy session. Our aim is to reveal how the particular session was run. We describe a period of resistance to change when the principal defences used were: somatization, acting-out, identification-with-the-aggressor, and, more specifically, language abuse leading to confusion. We discuss the value of interpretations that are focused on the group as a whole, where the group is considered to be an internal object. Although this article is not exclusively about an object-relations model, we attempt to analyze the influence of projective identification, which has an effect on the therapist's task of recognizing his "container" and interpreting functions.
Davanzo
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School of Medicine, Universidad de Chile.
González
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D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D011385:Projection; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior