The aim of psychotherapy – individual or group psychotherapy – is to bring about change in painful feelings, distorted perceptions of self and others, dysfunctional behavior, etc. While there are many systematic studies of short term individual and group psychotherapy, researches of long term psychotherapy such group analytic psychotherapy is, hardly exist. The practice of group psychotherapy h...

The development, over the past tViO years, of brief group psychotherapy as a treatment approach with military psychiatric patients is described. The tactics and techniques involved in the method are particularly emphasised. The recurrent themes of service life, identity difficulties and nuclear family disturbances were noted in all groups and the concept that the Army might be experienced as a ...

This study examines the concept of transference, focusing on its peculiarities in the group context. The nature of the therapeutic situation and the broad freedom given to patients in order to access the unconscious material at their own pace, within a safe environment and with as little censorship as can be managed, transference gradually takes place. Through displacement, the psychotherapist ...