66th Annual Conference

Saturday, February 21

Morning Open Sessions

9:00-11:30 A.M.

Session 313         

New Paradigms in Group Analytic Treatment: Intersubjectivity, Dissociation and Enactment

Chair:                

Fred Wright, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, New York, New York

Panelist:           

Robert Grossmark, Ph.D., Adjunct Facuty, Clinical Psychology, City University of New York, New York, New York

Intersubjective approaches to psychotherapy offer a range of new concepts that are especially appropriate for analytic group therapy.  In this presentation, we will contrast this approach with traditional models of analytic group therapy, and describe and demonstrate some of the central concepts (e.g., enactment, dissociation, multiple selves).

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe central constructs developed by intersubjective psychotherapists.

2. Identify leader and group member enactments.

3. List methods of intervention derived from an intersubjective approach to analytic group therapy.

Course References:

1. Grossmark, R. (2007). The edge of chaos: Enactment, disruption, and emergence in group psychotherapy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17,(4), 479-499.

2. Singer, E. (2007). The dialectics of relational psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy: Commentary on paper by Robert Grossmark. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17, (4), 513-528.

3. Wright, F. (2005). Valuing Enactments in group therapy: Discussion of three case studies. GROUP, 29 (4),399-406.