ABSTRACT

A good way to make up for what one might have missed out, is to have a brief individual therapy immediately following the group therapy. Such a therapy helps the individual to recognize in its full personal significance whatever problem has been stirred up in the course of the group process and work it through in retrospect and in relation to his own life history. Mr. Morgan together with his wife sought such therapy. It helped them to tackle problems in their relationship openly and to find workable solutions. To conclude with a word of self-evaluation, the chapter worked slightly differently at the time with the latest literature on the theory of narcissism and early object relations. The dynamics of a group process is determined by the individual problems and the personality structure of its members rather than by the conductor's theoretical frame of reference.