Combined and parallel individual and group therapy—still a red rag?

Abstract

The author argues that in specific cases, and for particular reasons, combined or parallel treatment could be superior to sole individual or sole group therapy. In recent years, I treated some patients before and during the start of group therapy with weekly individual sessions. This procedure was necessary to reduce the fear of the group for these patients to a tolerable level. For some other patients, I replaced the third psychoanalytic individual session with psychoanalytic group therapy for their treatment. The concurrent parallel group session can provide a supplement and extension of the psychoanalytic process. For patients with pronounced super-ego disorders, severe shame and social anxieties, this treatment may boost individual development in treatment. Concurrent group and individual psychotherapy enriches transference and countertransference work in both settings and enables a dense and intensive therapeutic process. To treat people equally means to treat them differently. The needs of our patients are not the same. The main point of my interest is the patient and not the treatment modality. Every patient requires individual ways of therapy.

Nature of Project Management Found in Nature

“…In the pedagogical experiment, at least two parallel groups of students with similar compositions are assumed, and the effect of the intervention is evaluated [42]- [45]. The "parallel groups" method [46]- [47] was used when comparing two groups. This technique achieves more reliable results (compared to the method of one group).…”

“…Pedagogical reality is different from physical or biological reality, and therefore experimentation in pedagogy is much more demanding than experimentation in technology or natural sciences [19], [42]- [45]. Controlling all the components (variables) in a pedagogical experiment is almost impossible because teachers deal with a living organism-a person [46]- [47]. Teaching students in such a way requires the teacher's deep interest and expertise in the life science field.…”