Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy, Third Edition

J. Scott Rutan, PhD, is a past president and distinguished fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He founded the Center for Group Psychotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was a cofounder of the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. Walter N. Stone, MD, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is a past president and distinguished fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and is currently a board member of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy. Widely published, he is the author of Group Psychotherapy for People with Chronic Mental Illness.

Groups in today's society; history of small group theory and practice; group dynamics and group development; therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy; mechanisms and processes of change; a systems approach to forming a group; patient selection; patient preparation and the group agreements; the role of the group therapist; beginning the group; special leadership issues; expressions of affect in group psychotherapy; the therapeutic process - a clinical illustration; difficult groups and difficult patients; time-limited psychodynamic groups; termination in group psychotherapy.