GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/group.41.3.0259
D. Diamond
{"title":"Sam and Me and Diane and Me and Sam and Diane and Me","authors":"D. Diamond","doi":"10.13186/group.41.3.0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/group.41.3.0259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"23 1","pages":"259 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86262717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/group.38.3.0257
B. Roth
{"title":"Between Mother and Child: A Response to Walter Stone's “Thinking About Our Work: The False Self”","authors":"B. Roth","doi":"10.13186/group.38.3.0257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/group.38.3.0257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"121 1","pages":"257 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86270074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.40.1.0045
M. Pines
{"title":"The Future Revisited","authors":"M. Pines","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.40.1.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.40.1.0045","url":null,"abstract":"45 1 Formerly Consultant Psychotherapist, Cassel, St. George’s, and Maudsley Hospitals and Tavistock Clinic. Correspondence should be addressed to Malcolm Pines, MRCP, MRCPsych, DPM, 21 Dealtry Road, London sw15 6nl. E-mail: malcpines@btinternet.com. I am happy for the opportunity to re-view my article of 2000. I wrote the original paper at the age of 75, and now aged 90, I have a retrospective over what I’ve written then and what has been happening for the last 15 years in our increasingly war-ravaged and conflict-torn world. Shepherding group analysis is no longer my responsibility, but I enjoy the investigation to which this request has given rise. The work of Trigant Burrow has received a great deal of attention since the publication of Edie and Giorgio Pertegato’s (2013) book From Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow. This book has stimulated a great deal of interest in Burrow and in the implications of his pioneering work. In my 2000 article, I wrote that Foulkes was unable to create a comprehensive deep theory based on his work. This has been remedied by several important publications. H. L. Behr and L. Hearst’s (2005) Group-Analytic Psychotherapy: A Meeting of Minds provides a detailed, comprehensive account of group analysis, including history and specialized applications. The book by Tom Ormay (2012), The Social Nature of Persons: One Person Is No Person, provides a deep philosophical, psychological, and biological understanding of the nature of the human being, intrinsic relatedness, and how this leads to the evolution of group analytic psychotherapy. In late 2015, a very important monograph by my colleague and cowriter John Schlapobersky appeared, this time with him as the sole author (titled From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice). (Schlapobersky and I have written together in the New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry; Pines & Schlapobersky, 2000.) It provides the deepest and most comprehensive text that has been written. I quote from some of the endorsements, which show how welcome his book is and that it will lay the standard down for many years to come:","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"22 1","pages":"45 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83826674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/group.41.1.0049
Claudia R. Arlo
{"title":"Work, Play, and Clinical Writing: Response to “Thinking About Our Work: Work”","authors":"Claudia R. Arlo","doi":"10.13186/group.41.1.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/group.41.1.0049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"173 1","pages":"49 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82952705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.37.3.0229
Emily J. Steinberg, Joanna S Gedzior, Phyllis Mervis, Philip Lulof
{"title":"Group Cotherapy in a Training Clinic","authors":"Emily J. Steinberg, Joanna S Gedzior, Phyllis Mervis, Philip Lulof","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.37.3.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.37.3.0229","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article describes how to run a successful psychodynamic group psychotherapy experience in a psychiatry resident training program. We review the optimal methods of leading groups in a residency clinic, promoting more continuity for the group members and the leaders in what could otherwise be a chaotic place to run groups. We also discuss techniques to deal with difficult dynamics that can arise between leaders in this setting and how coleadership and supervision are crucial parts of such an endeavor. Using the Mount Sinai Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Women's Group at the Mount Sinai Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry Division resident training clinic as our own effective model of psychodynamic group psychotherapy co-led by a junior and senior resident pair in a training clinic, we hope to illustrate how more programs can implement this approach as a tool for training psychiatry residents.","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"89 1","pages":"229 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89020421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.37.2.0155
Leyla Welkin
{"title":"Who Holds the Key to Your Box? Trust, Safe Space, and Culture","authors":"Leyla Welkin","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.37.2.0155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.37.2.0155","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The issue of trust—loss of safety, violation of trust, and restoration of interpersonal trust—is at the heart of the experience of trauma and trauma treatment. Culture affects the conditions that contribute to a sense of safety and trust as well as the meaning of trust itself. Space—physical space, emotional space, and even spiritual space—is a factor in the creation of a sense of trust and safety. Based on an exploration of the therapeutic metaphor of a covered box, this article discusses factors related to trust and space and culture observed in the context of trauma therapy groups conducted in Ankara, Turkey, between March 2009 and May 2011. Five trauma therapy groups were conducted by a multidisciplinary, multicultural team of mental health professionals inquiring into the effects of culture on therapeutic processes in trauma. The article focuses on both practical, physical space and imagined space in relation to the therapeutic goal of reestablishing a sense of basic interpersonal trust after trauma.","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"1 1","pages":"155 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83118952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.39.3.0251
J. Ellis
{"title":"Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Graduation Speech, June 24, 2015","authors":"J. Ellis","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.39.3.0251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.39.3.0251","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"50 1","pages":"251 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88538433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.39.2.0159
R. Pepper
{"title":"Is Group Psychotherapy Inherently Unethical?","authors":"R. Pepper","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.39.2.0159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.39.2.0159","url":null,"abstract":"159 1 Director of Training, Long Island Institute of Mental Health, Rego Park, New York. Correspondence should be addressed to Robert S. Pepper, PhD, CGP, 110-50 71st Road, #1E, Forest Hills, NY 11375. E-mail: DrRobertSPepper@aol.com. The other day, I received a call from a colleague who had just read the section of my new book (Pepper, 2014) on dual relationships in group psychotherapy. In that section, I make the argument that because dual relationships involve outside-the-group contact, they are by definition unethical; they violate confidentiality. My colleague suggested that I read an article titled “Confidentiality in Group Therapy: Empirical Findings and the Law” (Roback, Moore, Bloch, & Shelton, 1996). He said that the authors’ thesis goes well beyond my own. I must admit that I was not familiar with the article. As an expert on boundaries and ethics in group psychotherapy, I should have been. In fact, after having read the article, I wondered why every professional group psychotherapy organization doesn’t make this article required reading for all members, be they seasoned clinicians or neophyte group therapists. The implications of this obscure and overlooked little piece are mind-blowing. The authors, two of whom were lawyers, point out that, from a legal perspective, confidentiality in group therapy is not protected by law. One might infer, therefore, that group psychotherapy is inherently unethical, because not only is confidentiality in group therapy not protected, it is actually precluded by it. To quote: “Historically under law, communications are usually considered not confidential if made in the presence of third parties. . . . If the world knows about it, why not the court?” (pp. 118–119). At the time this article was written, only two jurisdictions in the United States, the District of Columbia and Illinois, had passed legislation protecting confidentiality in group therapy. That the very nature of group psychotherapy, consisting of more than two participants, excludes it from confidentiality laws may turn our professional belief","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"55 1","pages":"159 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90873383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.38.4.0365
W. Stone
{"title":"Response to Commentaries About Siblings","authors":"W. Stone","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.38.4.0365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.38.4.0365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"1 1","pages":"365 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91353124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/group.38.2.0159
S. Emerson
{"title":"The Use of Case Material: For Whose Benefit? Issues of Confidentialtiy and Therapist Self-Disclosure","authors":"S. Emerson","doi":"10.13186/group.38.2.0159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/group.38.2.0159","url":null,"abstract":"159 1 Private practice, Cambridge, MA. Correspondence should be addressed to Sara Emerson, MSW, LCSW, CGP, 21 High Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: sjemerson1@comcast.net. Confidentiality and therapist self-disclosure are among the major dilemmas for me in using clinical material in teaching, presentations, and publications. Ethically, I believe we have a responsibility to inform our patients that we would like to use the group material in our writing, in essence, for our own benefit. Additionally, I feel that the group and patients should be offered the opportunity to read what we have written and ultimately to give their permission to use the material. How does the knowledge that the material they create will become case material impact or influence the group’s spontaneity? True, we attempt to disguise people’s identities, yet people in a group can often recognize themselves and the interactions that are recounted. On one hand, patients may feel flattered and honored to contribute to the field, allowing others to learn and benefit. On the other hand, they could feel used, violated, and exploited. They are, in fact, doing their job in participating as a group member and, in accordance with the group agreements, in being as open and honest as possible and interacting spontaneously. If they know the theme of the article, are they more likely to perform to that perspective? Many years ago, my then husband was writing about the impact on their partners of the women’s movement and of women having professional aspirations. The issue from his perspective was most relevant in terms of sharing parenting and household responsibilities, areas previously delegated to the wife and mother. One day, in the midst of an argument over some of these issues (as I was a full-time professional mother–wife–woman), he said, “Wait, hold that thought while I write it down! It’ll be perfect for the article I’m working on now.” I am not suggesting that","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"21 1 1","pages":"159 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89615318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}