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Authors: Irvin D. Yalom,Molyn Leszcz

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The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy

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Table of Contents

 

ALSO BY IRVIN D. YALOM

Title Page

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1 - THE THERAPEUTIC FACTORS

INSTILLATION OF HOPE
UNIVERSALITY
IMPARTING INFORMATION
ALTRUISM
THE CORRECTIVE RECAPITULATION OF THE PRIMARY FAMILY GROUP
DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALIZING TECHNIQUES
IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR

 

Chapter 2 - INTERPERSONAL LEARNING

THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
THE CORRECTIVE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
THE GROUP AS SOCIAL MICROCOSM
THE SOCIAL MICROCOSM: A DYNAMIC INTERACTION
RECOGNITION OF BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS IN THE SOCIAL MICROCOSM
THE SOCIAL MICROCOSM—IS IT REAL?
OVERVIEW
TRANSFERENCE AND INSIGHT

 

Chapter 3 - GROUP COHESIVENESS

THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUP COHESIVENESS
MECHANISM OF ACTION
SUMMARY

 

Chapter 4 - THE THERAPEUTIC FACTORS: AN INTEGRATION

COMPARATIVE VALUE OF THE THERAPEUTIC FACTORS: THE CLIENT’S VIEW
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF THE THERAPEUTIC FACTORS: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CLIENTS’ AND ...
THERAPEUTIC FACTORS: MODIFYING FORCES

 

Chapter 5 - THE THERAPIST: BASIC TASKS

CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE GROUP
CULTURE BUILDING
HOW DOES THE LEADER SHAPE NORMS?
EXAMPLES OF THERAPEUTIC GROUP NORMS

 

Chapter 6 - THE THERAPIST: WORKING IN THE HERE - AND - NOW

DEFINITION OF PROCESS
PROCESS FOCUS: THE POWER SOURCE OF THE GROUP
THE THERAPIST’S TASKS IN THE HERE-AND-NOW
TECHNIQUES OF HERE-AND-NOW ACTIVATION
TECHNIQUES OF PROCESS ILLUMINATION
HELPING CLIENTS ASSUME A PROCESS ORIENTATION
HELPING CLIENTS ACCEPT PROCESS-ILLUMINATING COMMENTS
PROCESS COMMENTARY: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW
THE USE OF THE PAST
GROUP - AS - A - WHOLE PROCESS COMMENTARY

 

Chapter 7 - THE THERAPIST: TRANSFERENCE AND TRANSPARENCY

TRANSFERENCE IN THE THERAPY GROUP
THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND TRANSPARENCY

 

Chapter 8 - THE SELECTION OF CLIENTS

CRITERIA FOR EXCLUSION
CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION
AN OVERVIEW OF THE SELECTION PROCEDURE
SUMMARY

 

Chapter 9 - THE COMPOSITION OF THERAPY GROUPS

THE PREDICTION OF GROUP BEHAVIOR
PRINCIPLES OF GROUP COMPOSITION
OVERVIEW
A FINAL CAVEAT

 

Chapter 10 - CREATION OF THE GROUP: PLACE, TIME, SIZE, PREPARATION

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
DURATION AND FREQUENCY OF MEETINGS
BRIEF GROUP THERAPY
PREPARATION FOR GROUP THERAPY

 

Chapter 11 - IN THE BEGINNING

FORMATIVE STAGES OF THE GROUP
THE IMPACT OF CLIENTS ON GROUP DEVELOPMENT
MEMBERSHIP PROBLEMS

 

Chapter 12 - THE ADVANCED GROUP

SUBGROUPING
CONFLICT IN THE THERAPY GROUP
SELF-DISCLOSURE
TERMINATION

 

Chapter 13 - PROBLEM GROUP MEMBERS

THE MONOPOLIST
THE SILENT CLIENT
THE BORING CLIENT
THE HELP-REJECTING COMPLAINER
THE PSYCHOTIC OR BIPOLAR CLIENT
THE CHARACTEROLOGICALLY DIFFICULT CLIENT

 

Chapter 14 - THE THERAPIST: SPECIALIZED FORMATS AND PROCEDURAL AIDS

CONCURRENT INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP THERAPY
COMBINING GROUP THERAPY AND TWELVE-STEP GROUPS
CO-THERAPISTS
THE LEADERLESS MEETING
DREAMS
AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGY
WRITTEN SUMMARIES
GROUP THERAPY RECORD KEEPING
STRUCTURED EXERCISES

 

Chapter 15 - SPECIALIZED THERAPY GROUPS

MODIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL GROUP THERAPY FOR SPECIALIZED CLINICAL SITUATIONS: ...
THE ACUTE INPATIENT THERAPY GROUP
GROUPS FOR THE MEDICALLY ILL
ADAPTATION OF CBT AND IPT TO GROUP THERAPY
SELF-HELP GROUPS AND INTERNET SUPPORT GROUPS

 

Chapter 16 - GROUP THERAPY: ANCESTORS AND COUSINS

WHAT IS AN ENCOUNTER GROUP?
ANTECEDENTS AND EVOLUTION OF THE ENCOUNTER GROUP
GROUP THERAPY FOR NORMALS
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ENCOUNTER GROUP
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ENCOUNTER GROUP AND THE THERAPY GROUP

 

Chapter 17 - TRAINING THE GROUP THERAPIST

OBSERVATION OF EXPERIENCED CLINICIANS
SUPERVISION
A GROUP EXPERIENCE FOR TRAINEES
PERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
SUMMARY
BEYOND TECHNIQUE

 

Appendix - Information and Guidelines for Participation in Group Therapy

Notes

Index

Copyright Page

ALSO BY IRVIN D. YALOM

Existential Psychotherapy
Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy
(with Ginny Elkin)
Encounter Groups: First Facts
(with Morton A. Lieberman and Matthew B. Miles)
Inpatient Group Psychotherapy
Concise Guide to Group Psychotherapy
(with Sophia Vinogradov)
Love’s Executioner
When Nietzsche Wept
Lying on the Couch
Momma and the Meaning of Life
The Gift of Therapy
The Schopenhauer Cure

 

 

ALSO BY MOLYN LESZCZ

 

Treating the Elderly with Psychotherapy:
The Scope for Change in Later Life
(with Joel Sadavoy)

To the memory of my mother and father,
RUTH YALOM
and
BENJAMIN YALOM

 

 

To the memory of my mother and father,
CLARA LESZCZ
and
SAUL LESZCZ

Preface to the Fifth Edition

For this fifth edition of
The Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy
I have had the good fortune of having Molyn Leszcz as my collaborator. Dr. Leszcz, whom I first met in 1980 when he spent a yearlong fellowship in group therapy with me at Stanford University, has been a major contributor to research and clinical innovation in group therapy. For the past twelve years, he has directed one of the largest group therapy training programs in the world in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, where he is an associate professor. His broad knowledge of contemporary group practice and his exhaustive review of the research and clinical literature were invaluable to the preparation of this volume. We worked diligently, like co-therapists, to make this edition a seamless integration of new and old material. Although for stylistic integrity we opted to retain the first-person singular in this text, behind the “I” there is always a collaborative “we.”

Our task in this new edition was to incorporate the many new changes in the field and to jettison outmoded ideas and methods. But we had a dilemma: What if some of the changes in the field do not represent advances but, instead, retrogression? What if marketplace considerations demanding quicker, cheaper, more efficient methods act against the best interests of the client? And what if “efficiency” is but a euphemism for shedding clients from the fiscal rolls as quickly as possible? And what if these diverse market factors force therapists to offer less than they are capable of offering their clients?

If these suppositions are true, then the requirements of this revision become far more complex because we have a dual task: not only to present current methods and prepare student therapists for the contemporary workplace, but also to preserve the accumulated wisdom and techniques of our field even if some young therapists will not have immediate opportunities to apply them.

Since group therapy was first introduced in the 1940s, it has undergone a series of adaptations to meet the changing face of clinical practice. As new clinical syndromes, settings, and theoretical approaches have emerged, so have corresponding variants of group therapy. The multiplicity of forms is so evident today that it makes more sense to speak of “group therapies” than of “group therapy.” Groups for panic disorder, groups for acute and chronic depression, groups to prevent depression relapse, groups for eating disorders, medical support groups for patients with cancer, HIV/AIDS, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, myocardial infarction, paraplegia, diabetic blindness, renal failure, bone marrow transplant, Parkinson’s, groups for healthy men and women who carry genetic mutations that predispose them to develop cancer, groups for victims of sexual abuse, for the confused elderly and for their caregivers, for clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, first-episode schizophrenia, for chronic schizophrenia, for adult children of alcoholics, for parents of sexually abused children, for male batterers, for self-mutilators, for the divorced, for the bereaved, for disturbed families, for married couples—all of these, and many more, are forms of group therapy.

The clinical settings of group therapy are also diverse: a rapid turnover group for chronically or acutely psychotic patients on a stark hospital ward is group therapy, and so are groups for imprisoned sex offenders, groups for residents of a shelter for battered women, and open-ended groups of relatively well functioning individuals with neurotic or personality disorders meeting in the well-appointed private office of a psychotherapist.

And the technical approaches are bewilderingly different: cognitive-behavioral, psychoeducational, interpersonal, gestalt, supportive-expressive, psychoanalytic, dynamic-interactional, psychodrama—all of these, and many more, are used in group therapy.

This family gathering of group therapies is swollen even more by the presence of distant cousins to therapy groups entering the room: experiential classroom training groups (or process groups) and the numerous self-help (or mutual support) groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step recovery groups, Adult Survivors of Incest, Sex Addicts Anonymous, Parents of Murdered Children, Overeaters Anonymous, and Recovery, Inc. Although these groups are not formal therapy groups, they are very often
therapeutic
and straddle the blurred borders between personal growth, support, education, and therapy (see chapter 16 for a detailed discussion of this topic). And we must also consider the youngest, most rambunctious, and most unpredictable of the cousins: the Internet support groups, offered in a rainbow of flavors.

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