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The principles of analytic group therapy |
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At the heart of Group Analysis is the idea that human beings are fundamentally social beings, who spend their lives with other people in one way or another. The sources of problems that individuals encounter in their personal life and at work, are to be found not only in the dynamics of the groupings that they inhabit in the present, but also in the groups that they grew up in. These groupings include the family, friendship groups, schooling and so on. On the basis of this S.H Foulkes, the founder of group analysis, reasoned that as one’s difficulties arise in groups, then these difficulties are best explored, understood and addressed specifically in a group context. Group therapy is a particularly productive way of exploring personal difficulties in order to make changes at a fundamental level.
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Key Words: group therapy , group analysis , group analytic psychotherapy , group psychotherapy , psychotherapy groups , group psychotherapy , therapy group , group therapy , devon, south devon , Totnes , Exeter , individual psychotherapy , counselling , supervision , group supervision |
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