Selection of mothers for group therapy.

Abstract

Relationship therapy is based on the assumption that the patient will bring into his relationship with the therapist the whole range of his feelings and behavior. The therapist becomes the human target for all the frustrating devices the patient has used in everyday relationships. He has the opportunity to relive them with the therapist acting as a sort of buffer. The essence of the therapy is the living experience of the relationship. The therapist is passive toward the factual content of the patient's productions, Points out its underlying meaning, and remains constant in sympathetic objectivity.

Psychological tests in psychopathological prognosis.

“…A number of reports (4,6,7,8,52,54,58,73,149,159,166,172) have related outcome to clinical estimates of personality or behavioral traits. By and large such approaches leave much to be desired in the way of controls and reproducibility.…”

The application of diagnostic psychological methods to counseling and psychotherapy.

“…Other studies have attempted to determine treatability by studying successful and unsuccessful clients over a period of years. Glatzer (14) has indicated that rejecting, deeply neurotic, psychopathic or psychotic women are poor group therapy risks. If these criteria are found to be consistently true, the use of psychometric instruments-which are notably successful in differential diagnosis-to select potentially treatable clients is obvious.…”

Groups and Gender: The Effects of a Masculine Gender Deficit

“…In terms of this last variable, it seems obvious that in practice, a balance between men and women is desirable. A mixed-gender group is recommended even if a priori a single-gender group could address a particular problem or meet a specific therapeutic objective such as, for example, the treatment of eating disorders in adolescent girls (Vust et al, 2004), a workshop on the woes of puberty for hospitalized adolescent girls (Golden and Dominiak, 1986), or an exploration of the maternal role in a group for mothers (Glatzer, 1947). Single-sex groups were also chosen by six female colleagues who aimed to conduct a didactic analysis of femininity and related psychoanalytic concepts, particularly castration anxiety and penis envy (Ruiz Ruiz et al, 1990).…”