PREFORMED ATTITUDE PERSPECTIVES IN THE DEPTH PSYCHOLOGICAL GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY

Starting from a short comparative presentation of selected guiding mod els for group therapy processes it will be verified that differences i n the theoretical models are to be traced back considerably to the psy choanalytic tradition favoured in each case implicitly for its attitud e perspective. Thereby, in analogy to the psychoanalytic individual tr eatment in lying without visual contact to the therapist, all interven tions focused on the group as a whole, are a regression trigger that c riticizes the group of a practical test with developmental chances. Un der the supervision of the group therapist, most of the group particip ants will be able to master the demand situation with enhanced communi cative competence and increased perception. If however the partial sym ptom producing influence of the group psychotherapist remains unreflec ted, the danger of diagnostic false inferences and of a therapies' ind uced regressive fixing of individual group participants exists.