GroupPub Date : 2022-01-13DOI: 10.13186/GROUP.40.1.0029
A. Colman, P. Montero
{"title":"Tableaus of Beauty","authors":"A. Colman, P. Montero","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.40.1.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.40.1.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"53 1","pages":"29 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78566412","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.41.2.0161
J. Rutan
{"title":"Response to “Thinking About Our Work: What Do We Mean by ‘Mental Health’?”","authors":"J. Rutan","doi":"10.13186/group.41.2.0161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/group.41.2.0161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"17 1","pages":"161 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73017804","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.39.4.0335
R. Schulte
{"title":"Group Encounters of the Third Kind","authors":"R. Schulte","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.39.4.0335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.39.4.0335","url":null,"abstract":"This title pays homage to the Spielberg science fiction adventure about a seemingly unrelated collection of people cosmically chosen to have an intimate encounter with extraterrestrial beings. The film thematically explores the human urge to make intimate contact with what is felt to be alien yet strangely familiar—a cinematic metaphor par excellence for introducing my topics of dynamic group therapy and theater. In my professional universe, I routinely conduct group encounters whereby strangers come together to share otherworldly experiences—like acting in a play and relating in a therapy group.","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"1 1","pages":"335 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74347651","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.41.3.0213
Jeff Brand
{"title":"Politics, Projection, and Fake News","authors":"Jeff Brand","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.41.3.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.41.3.0213","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Recent years have seen an increase in partisan politics and social conflict, marked by the emergence of “alternative media” and fake news. This essay argues that social change (e.g., demographic shifts, globalization, information technologies) can create widespread crises in identity, and many of the more sensational public issues (i.e., fake news, conspiracy theories, etc.) represent expressions of shared psychological defenses against dramatic disruptions in self-concept. This essay uses a structural perspective on interpersonal theory as well as concepts from group theory to understand how politics influences identity and, in particular, how the projections of identity become interwoven with the political process.","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"15 1","pages":"213 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72658162","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.42.2.0137
S. K. Firestone
{"title":"Fathers and Daughters: The Promise of Intimacy","authors":"S. K. Firestone","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.42.2.0137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.42.2.0137","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Many women present with similar histories, having repeated the same dynamics with different partners, often dynamics they experienced with their fathers growing up. To the degree that a father lacks attunement to his daughter's needs, her hurt, anger, and other feelings, and the resultant defenses of disavowal and projection, set her up for conflict in her relationships and, in extreme cases, the development of addictive behaviors. This article weaves together contributions from different disciplines to create a comprehensive theory and practice to guide therapists in exploring conflict, deconstructing projections, and resolving feelings. It advocates group psychotherapy to help the daughter heal her childhood wounds, change her patterns of relating, and successfully establish partnership as an adult.","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"14 1","pages":"137 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73621531","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.40.2.0103
Christopher A. Scott
{"title":"Deconstructing Empathy and Creating a “We Space” in Group Therapy","authors":"Christopher A. Scott","doi":"10.13186/group.40.2.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/group.40.2.0103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A long and rich history recognizes the important role empathy plays in both group and individual therapy. The discovery of mirror neurons and related systems in the human brain has initiated renewed interest in the subject. This article deconstructs empathy in an effort to provide a deeper understanding of its developmental value as the highest form of emotional intelligence and thus provide a rationale for greater emphasis on education and training for psychotherapists.","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"174 1","pages":"103 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85416469","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.40.2.0165
Thomas M. Johnson
{"title":"Early Mistakes and Lessons Learned in Running a Group: The Former Prisoner of War Therapy Group","authors":"Thomas M. Johnson","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.40.2.0165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.40.2.0165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"136 1","pages":"165 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79683437","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.39.1.0047
R. Pepper
{"title":"The Ultimate End of Treatment","authors":"R. Pepper","doi":"10.13186/GROUP.39.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13186/GROUP.39.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"47 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. I found out on New Year’s Eve day that my psychotherapist of 30 years, Rosalind Kaplan, PhD, lay dying in a hospice facility somewhere. If I hadn’t just written a book that I wanted her to have a copy of, I would never have known that her life was nearly at its end. As it turns out, my only link to her now happened through an ironic twist of fate, because when she retired at the end of the 30 years of psychotherapy with me, she insisted that there would be no further contact between us. I was hurt and furious with her for that. She was my psychotherapist for exactly 30 years, from June 1982 to May 2012, which in itself is quite ironic because, in my professional writings, I have been very critical of what I have called “cult therapists” who hold on to their patients for 20 years or more. But, then again, so much of life is filled with irony. And, like a failing marriage, what initially attracted me to her style of therapy in the end infuriated me. She was scrupulous about boundaries. I had come to her from a treatment environment where there were none, so she was a source of stability, sanity, and comfort. For the first six months of treatment, I thought she was incompetent, because she didn’t tell me how to run my life, which was the template of therapy in which I was trained and treated. Despite the realization that this was toxic to me, it was the only type of therapy that I knew. In my treatment with Roz, I had to relearn what therapy was and what my role as a therapist—to myself, to others—should be. So when she told me in November 2011, after 29.5 years of working with her, that she was retiring at the end of the upcoming May, I was appalled. It was in this end-of-treatment phase that her adherence to strict boundaries became a liability. She decided that, once treatment ended, there would be no further contact between us. My feelings were hurt, and I complained that only six months was not enough notice, too short a time, to process a termination after all these years. It felt like a","PeriodicalId":90511,"journal":{"name":"Group","volume":"50 1","pages":"47 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80775606","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}