title: Systems-centered® group psychotherapy: putting theory into practice.
abstract: Systems-centered therapy (SCT) is derived from a theory of living human systems and practiced in individual and group therapy. Excerpts from an inpatient group illustrate how SCT norms, particularly functional subgrouping and the hierarchy of defense modification, are introduced within the first few minutes of an SCT group. The importance of modifying roles is also discussed, as is the significance of system hierarchy, isomorphy, and energy as applied in the practice of SCT.
authors.affiliation: Systems-Centered Training Institute. Agazarian@aol.com
authors.forename: Yvonne M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Agazarian
mesh_terms: D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006040:Goals; D006126:Group Processes; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D013598:Systems Theory