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Abstract
The author provides an overview of critical factors in the working phase of group psychotherapy from the perspective of psychodynamic theory. The discussion is organized around a clinical vignette to illustrate various types of intervention such as past, here and now, future; individual, interpersonal, group as a whole; in group–out of group; affect-cognition; and understanding–corrective emotional experience. The critical “windows into the unconscious,” transference, countertransference, and free association, are also discussed in terms of the clinical example. The author concludes his article with a few thoughts about the future of psychodynamic theory in relationship to group treatments.
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J. Scott Rutan
Dr. Rutan is Director of the Center for Group Psychotherapy, Harvard Medical School—Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.