Abstract
The authors of this paper emphasize the importance of group psychotherapy has in recent years in the Mental Health Centers. The individual psychotherapeutic work, was considered more profitable, while contact with the group was considered as a source of disturbance and threat to the individual. In time and ‘happened to the group process enhancement. The Read more
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The therapist of the group allowing the development of cognitive course, must analyse the meaning of the elements (patients, gatroenterologist, gastroenterologist, psychotherapist, university-context) and recognise the structure elements of the new bond that is forming. This movement can be considered as a process of Self reorganization. The patient’s group can be recognized as an Alter-Ego Self object who, as Neri says, supplies a “continuous presence … giving an essential share to the building of the feeling of a human being”, in the process of the strengthening of the Self necessary to support the disease’s experience. It is possible to say that in the leadership of groups with patients affected by organic pathology the leader’s flexibility, his ability to pick up the meaning of every element and that of using them again to reinforce the Self, activate and build the process of knowledge of the disease. Thus, the group’s members can learn to live together Read more
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What emerges then is a self that is incomplete or vulnerable, or a self that has either not developed its own functions and objects or has only been to able to do it both by sacrificing, cutting off and isolating the self that is capable of learning from mental pain and by distancing itself from all those objects, including the body, that can instigate that learning experience. For anorexic and bulimic patients, the homogeneous group as Self-Object offers a self-recognition and affective regulation experience that lays the foundations for a process of self-exploration which would otherwise be impossible in people whose very sense of existence feels threatened. If the patients can see the subjective form of their affective life reflected by others as something shared and therefore meaningful, human, open to communication and hence to Read more