Transference and group psychotherapy
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https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692006000100015Keywords:
Psychotherapy^i2^sgr, therapeutics, mental healthAbstract
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 and group members are perceived not as they are, with their real attributes, but as one or more objects that arouse emotions coming from the infant world, more precisely from the collection of deep affective influences. One peculiarity of the group situation when compared to individual psychotherapy is that, in the former, multiple transferences coexist, which group members establish among themselves, enabling a wide range of possible feelings. Both treatment modes share the assumption that unresolved conflicts which stimulated patients to seek for help can be reduced or even abolished through the interpretation and working through of transference, which functions as a process of change throughout the psychotherapy.Downloads
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2006-02-01
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Transference and group psychotherapy. (2006). Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem, 14(1), 110-117. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692006000100015