61st Annual Conference

Master Workshop 30

Anti-Group Forces in Training Groups

Chairs:            

David Altfeld, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Co-Director, Supervisory Training

Proram, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, New York

Jerome Gans, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Associate Clinical Professor of

Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 

Open to participants with more than ten years of group psychotherapy experience

In a variety of settings, experienced training group leaders are often puzzled by which anti-group factors allow some groups to flourish and others to flounder.  In this workshop, with an emphasis on potentially destructive forces, we will explore variables that may help and hinder efforts to make these groups the important training and developmental experiences they can be.

sharing of work experiences-didactic-experiential-demonstration

1. Nitsun, M. (1996). The Anti-Group: Desructive forces in the group and their creative potential.

    London and New York: Routledge.

2. Gans, J. (1995). T-GROUPS in Psychiatric Residency Programs: Facts and Possible

    Implications.  International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 45, 169-183.

3. Munich, R. (1993). Varieties of Learning in an Experiential Group. International Journal of Group

    Psychotherapy, 45, 169-183.