Example Cognitive Experiential Group Therapy Session

A previous study of a MBT group displayed that the therapists failed to establish the group as a training ground for mentalizing. In this study we present a detailed and long transcript of a sequence in a successful MBT group. The therapists’ interventions were rated according to the mentalization-based group therapy adherence and quality scale, performed by the Norwegian MBT Quality Laboratory. The therapists displayed a high adherence to the MBT-G manual and the patients became collectively engaged in exploring and reflecting upon crucial borderline dynamics. The interventions that seemed most important for unfolding of the sequence are carefully spelled out. They have a metacognitive flavour, but are elsewise simple and straight forward. There seems to be nothing essentially new in this MBT-G approach, if one asks for specific ingredients. However, the therapeutic stance is consequently geared towards exploration of mental states, guided by a certain theory. One might say that it represents a more modern mixture of ingredients that are well known in different research and group therapy camps.

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An Existential Psychoanalyst in the Literary Therapy Genre: The Representation of a Psychoanalytic Encounter in Irvin Yalom’s The Schopenhauer Cure

Ars Aeterna ◽

10.1515/aa-2015-0004 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 23-34

Author(s):

Yen‐Chi Huang

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Psychological Symptoms ◽

Parallel Line ◽

Therapy Session ◽

Arthur Schopenhauer ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Existential Psychotherapy ◽

Therapeutic Milieu ◽

Fictional Narratives ◽

Therapeutic Encounter

Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe the fictionalisation of psychoanalysis in the literary therapy genre written by psychotherapists. Being a psychotherapist, Irvin Yalom has written and published several literary therapy novels. The Schopenhauer Cure (2006) presents a psychoanalytic encounter with focus on the patient’s interpersonal issues in a group therapy session and draws a parallel line between fictional patients and the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The fictionalisation of patients’ psychological symptoms and the way therapists examine themselves in the therapeutic milieu in The Schopenhauer Cure correspond to the fundamental concerns of isolation, meaninglessness, death and freedom in existential psychotherapy. I explore the literary representation of the psychotherapist and therapist-patient relationship and the therapeutic encounter in The Schopenhauer Cure in the context of how fictional narratives can be read as a form of highlighting the psychoanalytic encounter

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A Sample Gestalt Group Therapy Session

New Directions in Gestalt Group Therapy ◽

10.4324/9781315669540-9 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 133-141

Author(s):

Peter H. Cole

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Therapy Session

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Transcript of a mentalization-based group therapy session

Mentalization-Based Group Therapy (MBT-G) ◽

10.1093/med:psych/9780198753742.003.0005 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 175-206

Author(s):

Sigmund Karterud

Keyword(s):

Group Therapy ◽

Therapy Session

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Effects of Physical Training on Stuttering

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.1104.767 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 767-776 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

B. Don Franks ◽

Elizabeth B. Franks

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Group Therapy ◽

Physical Training ◽

Cardiovascular Response ◽

Training Group ◽

Physical Stress ◽

Submaximal Exercise ◽

Endurance Running ◽

Response To Exercise

Eight college students enrolled in group therapy for stuttering were divided into two equal groups for 20 weeks. The training group supplemented therapy with endurance running and calisthenics three days per week. The subjects were tested prior to and at the conclusion of the training on a battery of stuttering tests and cardiovascular measures taken at rest, after stuttering, and after submaximal exercise. There were no significant differences (0.05 level) prior to training. At the conclusion of training, the training group was significandy better in cardiovascular response to exercise and stuttering. Although physical training did not significantly aid the reduction of stuttering as measured in this study, training did cause an increased ability to adapt physiologically to physical stress and to the stress of stuttering.

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