Challenges in a Psychotherapy Group

Cognitive Group Psychotherapy in Patients with Tuberculosis

Objective: Dysfunctional beliefs of tuberculosis patients have pivotal role in treatment and development of their serious psychiatric problems. Cognitive group psychotherapy has been utilized to manage the dysfunctional beliefs. Methods: In a quasi-experimental study and a pretest and posttest design, 24 male tubercular patients were selected by convenient sampling and then randomly assigned...

Developing an Inpatient Group Psychotherapy Program: Challenges and Lessons Learnt

In Iran, inpatient group psychotherapy has been limited to transient practices for research purposes or fulfilling personal interest of therapists. The goal of this paper is to share and explain the experience of developing an inpatient group psychotherapy program in Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital, Tehran, Iran. After theoretical delineation and preparation of a draft of the program guideline, tw...

Scapegoating in group psychotherapy.

The purpose of this paper is to describe and illuminate the phenomenon of scapegoating in group psychotherapy. Specifically, the role of projective identification - on both individual and group-wide bases - in the evolution of the deviant is delineated. Individual, interpersonal, and whole-group interventions are presented along with the technique of functional subgrouping, a relatively new and...

A Practicum of Group Psychotherapy

er,?aged in leading a therapy group are given answers, deriving from the authors' ^Periences. The result is something like a cookery book; it promises to be a godsend 0 those embarking on a new adventure. Inevitably, the book speaks with more ^thority than is justified; as meticulous evaluation of many of the technical procures advocated is at present beyond our skill, established usage, more o...

A Textbook in Analytical Group Psychotherapy