"Psychotherapeutic Change through the Group Process" discusses
the relation between the properties of groups and therapeutic
change. The purpose is to develop a view of groups that accounts
for the diversity, complexity, and fluidity of the group situation.
The view examines the group in depth, attending not only to overt
events, but also to covert aspects of specific situations. The work
addresses manifest behaviors, underlying motivations; and the
cognitive, rational aspects of the group. It explores the intense
affect which may be generated under conditions of group
interaction; not merely to the group or individual, but to the
individual in the group and to the group as the context for
personal experience and change.
The research presented here was initially explored in small
group studies. Separate investigations considered the ways in which
patients and therapists view group events, the nature of deviation,
and the development of group standards. They consider factors
associated with therapeutic improvement and therapeutic failure;
and characteristic concerns of early sessions. These, plus several
discussions of theory and methodology have been published
separately.
The authors' working procedure has been to study intensively a
relatively small number of groups, relying upon careful observation
of natural groups rather than upon laboratory experimentation. The
overall effort has been to understand the processes of therapy
groups in all their clinical richness and intricacy and yet to
impose a scientific discipline and control on our analyses. This
has meant a continuing attempt to develop appropriate analytic
procedures so that clinical analyses can be as firmly rooted as
possible in concrete data and reproducible methods. This book is a
unique effort at the scientific grounding of social work
practice.
"Dorothy Stock Whitaker" is professor of social work at York
University. She is author of "Emotional Dynamics and Group Culture:
Experimental Studies of Individual and Group Behavior" and "Using
Groups to Help People."
"Morton A. Lieberman" is professor of psychiatry and director
of the Aging and Mental Health Program at the University of
California, San Francisco. He is also director of the Alzheimer's
Center at the university and is regarded as a leading expert in the
fields of psychology of aging and group therapy.
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