61st Annual Conference

Friday, February, 27
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Workshop 45
Is there a Healer in the House?

Chair:              

Dominick Grundy, Ph.D., CGP, Consultant, Psychology Counseling Center,

CUNY Graduate School, New York, New York

Open to participants with less than four years of group psychotherapy experience

What do leaders want? And what do group members want from a leader? These wishes often go unspoken. Group wishes to rescue and be rescued are common but often ignored. On one hand we see compassion and motivation for growth. On the other are more tangled, hidden motives.

Using the group’s experience, we will explore how rescue wishes can affect

group dynamics.

experiential-demonstration-sharing of work experiences-didactic

Course References:

1. Esman, A. (1987). Rescue fantasies.  Psychoanalytic Quarterly,  56,  263-270.

2. Galanter, M. (1999). Cults: Faith, healing, and coercion, 2d. ed. New York: Oxford.

3. Yalom, I.  (1998). The ultimate rescuer. In The Yalom reader , 219-228. New York:

    Basic Books.