61st Annual Conference
Thursday,
February 26
Morning Open Sessions
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
Session
302
Why
Did "The Sopranos" Bring "Friends" to "The West Wing"?
Chair:
Joseph Shay, Ph.D., CGP,
Director, Psychological Services & Training, Two
Battle Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Panelists:
Lisa Motherwell,
Psy.D., CGP,
Director,
Dynamic Group Therapy Training
Program, Center
for Psychoanalytic Studies, Massachusetts General
Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts
J. Scott Rutan,
Ph.D., CGP, DFAGPA,
Past President, AGPA and NSGP;
Co-Founder and
Senior Faculty, Boston Institute for Psychotherapy,
Brookline,
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Shapiro,
Ph.D.,
Associate
Director, Center for Psychoanalytic
Studies,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Because everyone
wants to belong. We are always in groups or avoiding groups.
Groups-and group dynamics-are everywhere. We will illustrate this
ides by examining the groups on three popular television shows: The
Sopranos, Friends, and The West Wing. We will highlight underlying
group processes including leadership, rivalry, projection, and
scapegoating. Moreover, are Tony Soprano or Janice, Rachel or Ross,
Leo or CJ, or any of the others diagnosable? Should they be in group
therapy? How would we manage our countertransferential feelings with
such colorful characters?
Course References:
1.
Forsyth, D. (1999).
Group dynamics. 3rd ed. CA: Brooks/Cole.
2. Horwitz, L. (1987).
Indication for group psychotherapy with borderline and narcissistic
patients.
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 51, 248-260.
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