Achieving cohesiveness in therapy groups of chronically disturbed patients

Collectivity vs. Group

“…A shorter time frame would have been inadequate in terms of our constituent population and the expressed purpose of the group. According to Grobman (1978), chronically disturbed patients (like those in our entity) require six to eight months for the development of cohesiveness rather than two to three months (p. 147). Therefore, the overall time frame was evaluated as appropriate for the development of group.…”

“…It was apparent that the workers tended to control th'e content brought into the entity by limiting superficial conversations and by focussing more on issues within the entity in the "here and now". Grobman (1978) asserts that it is important for members to engage in superficial conversation until they feel comfortable with intimacy and interaction. Control over the content prevented members from talking about what was relevant to them and hindered their ability to relate to each other.…”

Underachievement in Exceptionally Gifted Adolescents and Young Adults: A Psychiatrist's View

“…The Journal of Secondary Gifted Education JSGE I n 34 years of psychiatric practice, no clinical problems have been more intriguing to me than underachievement and self-destructive behavior in exceptionally gifted adolescents and young adults. Early in my career as an associate clinical professor in Tufts University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry, I was stimulated by the challenge of establishing a community-based mental health service (Morrison, Shore, & Grobman, 1973), organizing and running a psychiatric clinic in a municipal court, and developing and supervising the extensive clinical work in a group psychotherapy training program (Grobman, 1978(Grobman, , 1980(Grobman, , 1981. Later, as a senior staff psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital, I had the opportunity to learn about and treat patients whose depression and anxiety were caused by cardiac surgery (Collins & Grobman, 1983).…”