Group Therapy for Adolescents and Parents: Study of Unconscious Orientation

Slow Open Dialectical Behavior Group Therapy for Adolescents and Parents: Longitudinal Study of Unconscious Orientation

“…In the present experiment, we noted some differences between parents and adolescents-for example, in the numbers of sessions, similar to what we have observed in one of our previous work of ours (Fernandez-Rivas et al, 2020)but the comparison between parents and adolescents groups will be the subject of a future study.…”

“…The authors have made the hypothesis that the group environment could "amplify" a "microscopic" entanglement between the unconscious to render it detectable at the macroscopic level. The present experiment is similar to the previous ones conducted by the same authors on training groups (Trojaola-Zapirain et al, 2014 and on DBT closed groups (Fernandez-Rivas et al, 2020). In this latter study, we have introduced a "questionnaire zero" to evaluate the socio-cultural bias in the choices before the groups meet.…”

“…Some of the authors of the present work have formulated the hypothesis that, following the basic tenets of psychophysics, also the group psyche could be described by a multi-body entangled system (Galli Carminati & Martin, 2008;Martin et al, , 2010Martin et al, , 2013. This hypothesis has led to the formulation of the "absurd experiment" that is the subject of this paper, and that has already been performed on different psychodynamics groups (Fernandez-Rivas et al, 2020;Trojaola-Zapirain et al, 2014.…”

“…Each participant was given an identification code to keep his identity anonymous for the research. The general setting of this experiment has been extensively described in previous publications (Fernandez-Rivas et al, 2020;Trojaola-Zapirain et al, 2014. For the purpose of this work, it will be enough to recall that we have used a questionnaire composed of 50 pairs of figures.…”

“…This work is the continuation of our investigation in the possibility of quantifying or, at the least, objectifying group dynamics (Fernandez-Rivas et al, 2020;Trojaola-Zapirain et al, 2014. We have already described in the referenced works the basic principles that have led us to initiate this work, and therefore we will give here only a short reminder.…”