Group Therapy with Disabled Young People: Effects of Modified Group-Analytic Techniques

Rudnitzki, Gerhard

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“…The healing experience of entering a group offers the release from silver handedness and conversely the defences afforded by it. Rudnitzki (1988) described using a group analytic approach with young physically disabled people. He reported they could address their sense of incompleteness and that their participation enabled feedback which challenged the negative social view of themselves.…”

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Open wounds: visible physical disability and its meaning for the group and society

Mitchell¹

2018

Group Analysis

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This article presents an exploration of the unconscious social treatment of physical disability and its transformational potential. In particular, I focus on the apparent difficulty talking about underlying emotion stimulated by disability. The social models address discrimination but obscure underlying emotion. The problem of physical disability appears to be located within an individual. I argue that this is done by mechanisms of projection and splitting and refer to the social unconscious and I suggest the problem is located within the group. I explore the process of shame and use myth of the Handless Maiden. I highlight the conductor's role in facilitating communication and discuss self-disclosure. Personal examples and a group vignette are presented to illustrate ideas.

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Open wounds: visible physical disability and its meaning for the group and society

Mitchell¹

2018

Group Analysis

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Section: A Group Analytic Approach To the Treatment Of The Psychological Aspects Of Disability In Groupsmentioning

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“…Two articles, Rudnitzki (1988) and O'Connor ( 2001) describe offering group analytic treatment for disability. Rudnitzki (1988) wrote about work with young people with severe physical disabilities in an institutional setting, and their experience of the benefits of providing an analytic group. The aim was to assist the young people in dealing openly with their disabilities in order to facilitate the integration of the disability into their personal development and their communicative behaviour.…”

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Working with Disability in Groups

Smith

2009

Group Analysis

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I link the experience of disability to some psychoanalytic theories of early development and recent studies into the effect of early attachment experiences on the development of the brain. I will show that the group regresses to the earliest stages of development in order to work with body-mind experiences, and to find a language in which to make sense of their current experience. I will then discuss how this can be worked with in an analytic group. I also link this to working with chronically psychologically disabled patients. The group is a space to enable members to increasingly own and tolerate their disability.

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Connecting confusions with painful realities: Group analytic psychotherapy for adults with learning disabilities

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McGauley

1994

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Group Therapy with Disabled Young People: Effects of Modified Group-Analytic Techniques

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Open wounds: visible physical disability and its meaning for the group and society

Open wounds: visible physical disability and its meaning for the group and society

Working with Disability in Groups

Connecting confusions with painful realities: Group analytic psychotherapy for adults with learning disabilities

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