Group Therapy: The Power of the Group to Change Relationship Patterns

[Barbre_Gage]

Thank you so much for this!
I am an intern for my college
Indian River state college and on Monday I will be running my first psychodynamic group therapy session!

[bettykofan]

Awesome lecture. Thoughtful and thorough. Will be very helpful for my upcoming Group Counseling class. Much appreciation for posting this.

[daveclarke]

This is excellent. I love Irvin Yalom and have finished two years of individual psychodynamic counselling. I’m about to join a analytic group as I want to be more challenged and have listened to this a few times to understand what’s expected and this delivered the goods. Super post! Very nourishing with excellent information, thanks Dave Brighton England

[cadmantheaviator]

I sat in an analytic group for over a year. Every minute was terrifying. It didn’t feel safe. I felt tricked into it and manipulated into staying. Groups are not universally supportive and healing. Talking isn’t always helpful. Three years later I am still struggling every day with an obtuse and harmful experience. If I had been told the therapist wasn’t going to do anything but stir the pot and that 10% of people experience lasting harm I wouldn’t have entered the group. Recognising the falseness of the situation can I believe create a pseudo therapy and undermine trust and confidence. Groups have more to do with professional and financial decisions and any problems the patient has are written off. Ignoring patient questions and concerns at the start result only in a long drawn out harmful experience. It is a huge leap to generalise that it will always reflect patterns outside the group.

[janetm]

how many groups such as the one that is being touted here are there for those who are seeking help from them?

[claireh.]

Common sense would tell you that surrounding yourself with people who act out problematic patterns and dropping your boundaries in that setting would be harmful. Do your due diligence and don’t make assumptions about the “benefits” upsell by people who provide the service.

[cadmantheaviator]

People are entitled to perceive a group in a weird setting with a weird therapist watching them as not safe. What unfolds is not necessarily reflective of anything other than a reaction to this situation. Groups spend months going nowhere. I didn’t understand my goal. The therapist might as well have been a scarecrow. There was only nervous people filling 90 minutes. Here again therapists chuckling at the idea that clients feel lost. These ideas and forms of therapy have more to do with what therapists think are good. It really isn’t the utopian experience these kind of lectures keep trotting out. It isn’t safe for everyone. The therapists are passing the buck.

[princenicholasherrman]

1:14 AM 2/12/2021 Didnt watch the video. Thats whats wrong with all those guys. Im not picking on them. I heard enough earlier just from the guys I was with. I DONT CARE FOR THIS STUFF THEY DO.