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RESEARCH PRODUCT

The Symptom in the Group Situation

Raffaele Menarini

subject

050103 clinical psychologyUnconscious mindPsychotherapistSocial PsychologyGroup (mathematics)05 social sciencesRepetition compulsion050108 psychoanalysismedicine.diseasePersonality disordersPsychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyGroup analysisId ego and super-egoAbandonment (emotional)medicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSession (computer science)PsychologyClinical psychology

description

Group analysis is a methodology that localizes the interactions arising from patients' symptoms and personality disorders. This marks the passage from a clinical-character aspect to a direct vision of the conflictual and unconscious borders between Ego and Superego. Thus the traumatic personal history of the individual is relatively freed from the constrictions of the repetition compulsion present in the symptomatic structures. The author maintains that combined therapy (a weekly group session and a weekly individual session) reduces cases of abandonment of the group caused by the deepest resistances of the id.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1996-12-01Group Analysis
https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316496294003