TO THE METHOD OF THE INTENDED DYNAMIC GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY

The intended dynamic group psychotherapy, the heritage of the GDR in t he field of psychotherapy, is still hardly known in the ''West''. At f irst sight this way of therapy seems to be very similar to western ana lytical concepts of group therapy. But studying the issue carefully on e discovers an irritating strangeness in substance and terminology. Th is is a critical treatise of the method of the intended dynamic group psychotherapy in order to explain this strange concept and make it mor e tangible and understandable. The article also works out the elements in common with the western methods of group therapy, which are orient ated according to psychoanalysis. It contains details about the specif ic therapeutical procedure and the developements within groups in each phase. Moreover the paper deals with the ambivalent relationship to p sychoanalysis, which has developed as a result of the historical circu mstances. Tn order to bring out the differences and elements of common the authores compaires the intended dynamic group psychotherapy in sp ecific details with the group psychotherapy of the, ''Gottingen model' '.