Psychoanalytical Psychology, Group Psychotherapy & Counseling, Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy

Name: Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy
Author: J.Scott Rutan,Walter N. Stone
ISBN: 9781572305182

by J.Scott Rutan, Walter N. Stone

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This highly acclaimed work has served as a comprehensive professional resource and text since its original publication. Now in its revised and expanded third edition, Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy covers all aspects of forming and leading groups for a broad range of clinical populations. Essential topics covered include mechanisms and processes of change, patient selection, group composition, and patient preparation. Also addressed are leadership issues, the use of cotherapists, combining group work with other forms of treatment, understanding the expression of affect in groups, and dealing with "difficult" groups or individual members. Extensively revised, the third edition incorporates recent refinements in theory and practice from a variety of psychodynamic perspectives. References have been updated throughout, many new clinical examples have been added, and a separate chapter is now devoted to time-limited groups. Another entirely new chapter will be particularly useful in teaching and supervision. It provides an extended clinical illustration with commentary from both authors, illustrating the differing, equally valid perspectives that two experienced therapists might bring to the same case.

The book contains black-and-white illustrations.

About the Author, J.Scott Rutan,Walter N. Stone

J. Scott Rutan, PhD, is a past president and distinguished fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He founded the Center for Group Psychotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was a cofounder of the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy.

Walter N. Stone, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is a past president and distinguished fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and is currently a board member of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. Widely published, he is the author of Group Psychotherapy for People with Chronic Mental Illness.

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Boston-based psychotherapist Rutan and Stone (psychiatry, U. of Cincinnati) explain to fellow practitioners how to form and lead psychotherapy groups for a broad range of clinical populations. After a history of group therapy, they discuss such aspects as mechanisms and processes of change, patient selection, group composition, and patient preparation. They do not mention dates for earlier editions, but here update references, techniques, data, and contexts and discuss time-limited groups. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)