Difficult Topics in Group Psychotherapy - My Journey From Shame to Courage

About the author

Jerome Gans is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Associate in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has been leading, supervising, and teaching about group therapy for forty years. He has published widely on group and individual therapy, psychological aspects of physical rehabilitation, liaison psychiatry and psychotherapy and literature.

Summary

This book contains eleven selected papers on difficult topics group therapists encounter in their work. Based on the author's forty years in the field, these papers include the topics of shame, courage, hostility, combined individual and group therapy, money, indirect communication, difficult patients, silence, and the missed session.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Gans, Gans Jerome
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367106737
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10673-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: The New International Library of Group Analysis
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Group Psychotherapy