64th Annual Conference
Thursday, March 8
Afternoon Open
Sessions
2:45
P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Session
305
Video of
Object Relations Group Psychotherapy
Chair:
Stephen Saeks,
Ph.D., Private Practice, Topeka, Kansas
Panelist:
Ramon Ganzarian, M.D., DFAGPA,
Emeritus Training Analyst,
Emory University, Professor of Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Institute,
Atlanta, Georgia
Discussant:
Marianne Robinson, M.S.W., CGP,
Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Northwestern Psychoanalytic
Society, Seattle, Washington
Video from actual group sessions will be shown to
demonstrate object relations group psychotherapy, specifically how
the paranoid mistrust of a help-rejecting-complainer acts out the
entire group's anger and how "pairing" is acting out of hypomanic
defenses denying depressive guilt. Discussion explores how to focus
on the central topic of a complex session and dealing with
hypochondriac anxieties.
Learning
Objectives:
The attendee will
be able to:
1 Identify
avoidance and denial of depressive guilt in using love to "have
fun".
2 Learn to focus
on the central topic of a complex session.
3 Recognize
hypochondriac anxieties as an avoidance of unbearably ambivalent
feelings, mainly anger at helpers.
Course References:
1. Ganzarain, R. (1992). Introduction to Object Relations
Group Psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. 42,205
-223.
2. (1991).The
'Bad'-Mother Group: An extension of Saul Scheidlinger's mother-group
concept in AGPA. 7, 157-173.
3. (1989). An
Object Relations Approach to Hypochondriasis in Object Relations
Group Psychotherapy. 177-216.
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