Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, or Both?

Js, Rutan; Alonso, Anne

doi:10.1080/00207284.1982.11492053

Cited by 28 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 7 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Billow (2009) describes there, that quite a number of practitioners see combined treatment as an independent, equal form of psychoanalysis besides individual and group analysis. Already in 1982, Rutan and Alonso argued similarly. Seidler and Horzetzky (2011) report a primarily positive evaluation of concurrent treatment by candidates.…”

Section: Preliminary Thoughtsmentioning

confidence: 88%

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

Türk¹

2019

Group Analysis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

Section: Preliminary Thoughtsmentioning

confidence: 88%

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

Türk¹

2019

Group Analysis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Combining individual and group treatments does carry potential benefits, but it also has risks and may be contraindicated if the group treatment is not compatible with the individual therapy (Ormont, 1981; Rutan & Alonso, 1982; Yalom & Leszcz, 2005). Despite our clarity about the reason for adding the group therapy, our initial open communication, and agreement about the treatment objectives, the splitting hindered our collaboration.…”

Section: Preparing Individual Therapists For Conjoint Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Can we collaborate? Mistakes made when group and individual therapists ignore multiple realities.

Marmarosh

2016

Psychotherapy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Often, group therapists collaborate with individual therapists in conjoint treatment. Many of these patients start in individual therapy and are referred to the group to help facilitate the treatment and address interpersonal and relational issues that either cannot or will not be addressed in the individual work. Although this has the potential to foster incredible growth for patients, it may also cause problems in treatment when collaboration between therapists falls apart. The current paper will examine mistakes made when multiple realities about a patient are ignored during the pregroup screening and preparation, and feedback from group treatment is not integrated into individual therapy. Clinical examples will be used with specific recommendations for combined treatment planning and interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record

show abstract

“…Group interventions are also frequently less threatening to patients, since the impact of such interventions is diluted by being applied to the whole group (Rutan & Alonso, 1982). Patients who might feel persecuted or degraded if the therapist focused individually on thoughts or feelings they have been disavowing may keep these negative reactions at a tolerable level through mutual identification with other group members or through projections which allow them to experience the intervention as primarily addressed to others.…”

Section: Group Interventions Vs Individual Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A dynamic/expressive approach to brief inpatient group psychotherapy

Rosegrant

1988

Group

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Therapeutic action occurs in groups when patients simultaneously become more accepting of their own thoughts and feelings and increase their capacity to share more benign and mature interpersonal relationships with the therapist and other patients. This orientation can guide practitioners of brief inpatient group psychotherapy in choosing when to use interpersonal, problem-solving, or object relations techniques, or more traditional dynamic~expressive techniques. While the brief inpatient modality requires an increase in suppressive techniques compared to the long-term outpatient modality, suppression must be used judiciously, to facilitate rather than interfere with self-understanding and development of therapeutic relationships. Specific technical choices are derived from this principle and iUustrated with a case example.An integrating orientation is needed to guide practitioners of brief inpatient group psychotherapy in the selection of techniques. As brief group therapy has become an increasingly popular modality for inpatients, a literature has emerged advocating at least three approaches: the interpersonal approach, the problem solving/educative approach, and an object relations approach. I shall discuss these approaches, then propose a psychodynamic/expressive orientation that provides guidance in selecting from among these and more traditional dynamic-expressive techniques.The interpersonal approach has been most extensively elaborated (Yalom, 1983). Yalom reasoned that the core problem for all patients involves difficulties in interpersonal relationships, and that these difficulties can be addressed with most immediacy in the here-and-now of the group. Therefore, he recommended that interventions be directed toward facilitating group interaction, focusing attention on interactions as they occur, helping patients identify maladaptive patterns of relating, and developing alternatives. This approach downplays exploration of motives, extragroup experiences, or anything else not observable in the here-and-now.The object relations approach (Kibel, 1978(Kibel, , 1981 also focuses on relationships, but emphasizes internalized and largely unconscious object relations as

show abstract

Group Therapy, Individual Therapy, or Both?

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

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

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

Can we collaborate? Mistakes made when group and individual therapists ignore multiple realities.

A dynamic/expressive approach to brief inpatient group psychotherapy

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About