ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a deal with conflict after it has achieved a good measure of cohesion. The interventions in the chapter can be useful in a wide variety of clinical situations, with various populations. If we grew up in a painfully conflictual environment, this is what we will anticipate when conflict arises in the group. When there is conflict, one way to do this is to redirect the anger away from the group Member and onto the Therapist. There is a greater sense of safety and common purpose: whatever happens, we are here to help one Another. Anger and conflict in the group can threaten therapeutic outcomes and even the existence of the group itself. It too depends on the Therapist's ability to comfortably experience anger in his or her groups, and the Therapist's psychological sophistication.
