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Chapter 11 - Group Analytic Psychotherapy and the Group Analytic Model: A Clinician’s Guide

from Section 2 - Other Forms of Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

By
Maria Papanastassiou
Edited by
Rachel Gibbons  and
Jo O'Reilly
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Summary

Group analytic psychotherapy is an important psychotherapeutic treatment, both in the NHS and the private sector. Many patients seek help for difficulties in social relating and maintaining intimate and supportive relationships with families, colleagues, friends and partners. Relationships are key to how we live, function, develop and respond to adversity. Harmful patterns of relating and difficulties with intimacy predispose to mental health difficulties, and impact powerfully on the ability to recover. For many people presenting in distress and seeking psychotherapy, group analytic psychotherapy should be viewed as a treatment of choice.

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Seminars in the Psychotherapies , pp. 135 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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