ABSTRACT
Along with Yvonne Agazarian, Susan Gantt and Earl Hopper were interested in the similarities and differences between their respective theoretical and clinical approaches. The systems-centered therapy and training (SCT) training group was in the last afternoon of a three-day experiential workshop on exploring roles. This group was composed of members at an intermediate level in SCT training. Within a few weeks of the group’s meeting, Susan wrote to each of the participants asking them to write briefly about their memory of the group session. The group members obliged. From the SCT view, the group’s responses richly illustrated the phase dynamics that were stimulated, starting with authority, moving to the intimacy phase dynamics and lastly, recovering work phase functioning. For the group-as-a-whole, each role was a group adaptation, containing part of the group’s reaction and attempting to remedy the break in security.
