scholarly journals Jacob Levy Moreno’s Psychodrama As a Work Technique For Treating Patients in Group and Individual Psychotherapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-259
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Litwińska-Rączka
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Technique ◽  
Subsequent Step ◽  
Alternative Behaviors ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
Intrapsychic Conflicts ◽  
The Given ◽  
Work Technique

Abstract Introduction. The basic purpose of this article is to present Jacob Levy Moreno’s psychodrama method as the psychotherapeutic technique useful in work with patients during individual and group psychotherapy. Material and Method: The author presents the analysis of case studies of patients treated in individual and group psychotherapy. He instances the examples of psychodramatic work on the stage as well as monodramatic and reports their importance in the process of patient psychotherapy. He discusses the effects of these act ivities in the context of changes in the emotional and interpersonal functioning of patients. Results: The given examples of monodrama and psychodramatic works illustrate the mechanisms of the changes offered by the method, e.g. insight, abreaction, acceptance of internal impulses, confrontation with the feelings of other people, training of alternative behaviors. In the article one can follow each subsequent step of analyzing intrapsychic conflicts of patients, which, thanks to the play on the stage, can be named and experienced by them. Conclusions: Psychodrama, used in the psychotherapeutic work of the group and in individual work with the patient (in the form of a monodrama), gives great opportunities to broaden the insight of the patient into very complicated internal mechanisms of conflicts and deficits. Psychotherapist - leader encourages patients to be creative and to spontaneous development of their blocked personality elements. The specificity of psychodrama is a relatively quick resolution of many years of ongoing conflict and permanent reparation of traumatic experiences, even from early childhood.

Patient Satisfaction in a Psychiatrie Walk-In Clinic

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Dyck ◽  
Hassan F.A. Azim
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Consumer Satisfaction ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
High Group ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Satisfaction With Services

The present study examined consumer satisfaction with services provided in a Psychiatric Walk-In Clinic in order to determine not only general levels of satisfaction but also whether or not differences in satisfaction exist between different user groups. Although levels of reported satisfaction were generally high, group psychotherapy patients reported being significantly less satisfied than patients who had been assessed at the clinic or who were in individual psychotherapy. None of the demographic variables including previous psychiatric experience, diagnosis and patient visits were related to satisfaction. These data were discussed in terms of program development.

scholarly journals Facing the Music: Further Thoughts on Integrating Music into Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
G. Paul Blimling
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Relational Trauma ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

In this article, I respond to the insightful commentaries by Karen Riggs Skean (2019), by Richard Harrison (2019), and by Ben Adams (2019) on my hybrid case study of "James," a survivor of chronic relational trauma (Blimling, 2019). These commentaries have stimulated me to think further about the impact of music on my individual psychotherapy work, both with James and with subsequent clients, and specifically with regard to its impact on my approach to group psychotherapy work. In addition, these commentaries have raised particular issues that I respond to, including, (a) constructive criticism by Skean and Harrison regarding the potential further use of "metaprocessing" and the developments made in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) since I completed the Case of James; (b) Skean’s perceptive point explaining how an individual therapist can take a personal passion—like music or literary writing or bicultural identity—and use it to enhance his or her enlivened presence in therapy with a client; and (c) Adams’ thesis that music and psychotherapy both have their origins in the shamanistic practices of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, suggesting that the combination of psychotherapy and music is a kind of return to our very roots.

scholarly journals Case formulations in mentalization-based group therapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigmund Karterud
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Clinical Vignette ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Case Formulation ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
Treatment Alliance ◽  
Borderline Patients

Ideally, the assessment phase of patients who are referred to mentalization-based treatment (MBT) should conclude with a mentalization- based case formulation. The structure and content of such case formulations are described. Their aim are: i) to enhance treatment alliance and ii) to provide some structure to the treatment process through suggesting privileged themes related to emotions, relational patterns and mentalizing. MBT is a conjoint kind of psychotherapy, integrating individual and group therapies. Case formulations has belonged to the tradition of individual psychotherapy, while being mostly ignored by group therapists. The question is: are case formulations also relevant for group psychotherapy? How can they be properly introduced while not disturbing the group processes? The theme is discussed through a clinical vignette that illuminates typical therapeutic challenges in dynamic group psychotherapy with borderline patients. The author concludes with some suggestions for clinical structure, process and research.

Countertransference: The Conductor's Emotional Response within the Group Setting

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Prodgers
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
Group Situation ◽  
The Uk

In the postwar years there has been considerable debate on the use and usefulness of the therapist's countertransference feelings in individual psychotherapy, whereas in group psychotherapy, at least in the UK, there has been comparatively little attempt to address these issues. This paper reviews countertransference in relation to the complexities of the group situation. In particular I argue that for the group the term `countertransference' is itself confusing, and this is reflected in its usage, which creates potential for misunderstanding.

Denigration of a Victim in Individual Psychotherapy by Violent vs Seductive Child Molesters

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1276-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Eisenman
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Child Molesters ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy

20 child molesters, 10 classified as violent and 10 as seductive, were studied in individual psychotherapy, with their therapists responding to a checklist indicating clients' use of victim-denigrating statements. The violent child molesters were significantly more likely to make statements denigrating their victims than were the child molesters classified as seductive. The results expand the 1993 findings of Eisenman who observed this phenomenon with sex offenders during group psychotherapy. Theoretical and treatment implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Changes in personality functioning as a result of group psychotherapy with elements of individual psychotherapy in persons with neurotic and personality disorders – MMPI-2

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Cyranka ◽  
Krzysztof Rutkowski ◽  
Michał Mielimąka ◽  
Jerzy Sobański ◽  
Bogna Smiatek-Mazgaj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Personality Functioning

scholarly journals Υγιή αδέρφια παιδιών με καρκίνο

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Κ. Καραμπέλα ◽  
Π. Δ. Χατήρα ◽  
Δ. Δαμίγος
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor ◽  
Myelogenous Leukemia ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Healthy Siblings ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Basic Purpose

The basic purpose of this research is to understand how healthy siblings visualize and represent health and disease as conditions affecting them and others in their family. Furthermore, an attempt was made to evaluate the emotions about health and disease for healthy siblings, as well as to investigate the parameters that interfere with the physicaland emotional life of healthy siblings. Fourteen healthy children participated in the research, aged between 7 and 14, siblings to children diagnosed and receiving treatment for leukemia (acute lymphoblastic &myelogenous leukemia), nephroblastoma (Wilms’ tumor), lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, where evaluated according to the Hatira Projective Technique. Some positive but mainly negative responses were obtained.The negative reactions concerned emotional instability, rejection, separation, siblings’ rivalry, the medical treatment and the fear of death, while positive reactions concerned self-awareness, sensitization, earlier maturing and increased family coherence after the crisis. The bond between siblings can outrun time and crises, even outgrowing the relationship between parents and their children. It is simultaneously a very vulnerable relationship, since traumatic experiences such as those arising from childhood cancer interfere with the mental and emotional development of the healthy brother or sister.

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