Freud pioneered new techniques for understanding ______ and his efforts resulted in the most comprehensive theory of personality and psychotherapy ever developed.
Human behavior
Most theories of group counseling have taken concepts, techniques from ____.
Psychoanalysis
True or False: You must have significant training in psychoanalytic techniques in order for the psychoanalytic concepts to become a pert of your own theoretical approach
False: you do not even have to use psychoanalytic techniques to be able to understand psychoanalytic concepts.
What is the underlying psychodynamic group therapy of group members?
Through their interactions within the group, re-create their social situation so that the group becomes a microcosm of their everyday lives.
Psychoanalytic group therapists pay particular attention to ___________ and the past as crucial determinants of present behavior.
Early child hood experiences
Traditional analytic group therapy focus on the historical basis of present__?
Behavior
_____ entail a process whereby members develop intense feelings for certain others in a group.
Ex: a person may “see” in others some significant figure in his or her present life.
Multiple transferences
What role does multiple transferences take on for individuals?
Allows a person to explore parallels between their past and present experience and to acquire a new understanding of their dynamics.
What are limitations to using psycho analysis?
- Does not adequately address social, cultural, and political factors.
- Less concerned with short term, focuses on long term personality reconstruction.
- discriminatory among lower income clients may lack resources, time to begin and maintain treatments.
What is an example of a modification of classical analytic practice?
erikson’s psychosocial stages, understanding key themes in the development of personality.
Offers general framework for recognizing conflicts that participants explore.
Unique advantages working with individuals borderline/ narcissistic dynamics over one-on-one
What are strengths of the psychoanalytic approach?
- Provides frame work in understanding an individual’s history
- A person can gain more control over present behavior by understanding childhood trauma or conflicts
- Resistance once explored can help to identify unconscious reasons behind it.
- Transference and countertransference explores certain feelings within a group as clues for unresolved conflicts within a person to be productively worked on in group
- Can re-create early life situations continuing to impact the client.
What are ways in which the psychoanalytic approach with multicultural populations can be implemented?
- Consistency can foster a sene of cultural values among group members
- Cultural groups may place an emphasis on family history and this can be used to gain an understanding of past experiences to understanding current functioning.
- Working in symbolic ways can help to navigate and address reluctance to talk about personal problems.
- Practitioners conceptualize struggles of clients from an analytic perspective but be mindful to not misuse powers or dominating the group to conform.
- Be aware of own personal bias whether intention or unintentional.
How can the psychoanalytic approach be applied to group work in schools?
- Provides conceptual framework understanding child’s or an adolescent’s current problems.
- Be aware of resistance, transference, anxiety and functioning of ego-defense mechanisms
- The awareness of issues can add depth to the group and to interventions.
- Develop empathy and to work companionable with here-and-now problems
___: applies the principles of psychoanalytic theory and therapy to treating selective disorders within a pre established time limit of generally 10-25 sessions.
- Uses psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic concepts.
- Emphasizes a clients strengths and resources
- Therapist thinks psychodynamically but open to variety of intervention strategies.
- Analytically oriented therapists tend to be skeptical of “quick fix” techniques.
Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
___ an unstable view of one’s self and instability in relating to others.
- Relationships are dominated by the need to defend against the fear of abandonment or rejection.
Borderline personality disorder
___ pervasive pattern of grandiosity, hypersensitivity to the evaluations of others, and a lack of empathy.
Every relationship requires adulation and perfect responsiveness from the partner.
Begins in early childhood
Narcissistic personality disorder
