Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy, Second Edition

This second edition continues to present group therapy as a natural antidote to many of the disorders of this age, particularly narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. Completely rewritten and expanded to reflect recent development in theory and technique, and challenges to psychodynamic theory and the practice of long-term psychotherapy, it presents completely new chapters on time-limited groups and the combination of group therapy with individual therapy and psychopharmacology. Drs. Rutan and Stone offer a consistently psychodynamic approach that demonstrates the cost efficiency of dynamic principles which seek to help the patient gain understanding rather than mere symptom relief in time-limited treatment. The last third of the book is devoted to the explication of key clinical issues such as co-therapy; combining group therapy and psychopharmacology; conjoint therapy; combined therapy; time-limited group therapy; dealing with troublesome patients; scapegoating; and terminations. This text is aimed at group therapists, as well as mental health professionals interested in group psychotherapy, graduate students in psychology, nursing, social work, and residents in psychiatry.