The Unwitting Exposure of the Group Therapist

Chair:              

Kathleen Hubbs Ulman, Ph.D., CGP, FAGPA, Assistant Professor in

Psychology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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

Unwitting exposure of the therapist's private life puts the therapist and the group off-balance and creates both transferential and countertransferential dilemmas. This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss experiences of exposure and to devise ways they might manage such events in the future so as to enrich the group treatment.

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Course References:

1. Ulman, K. (2000). Unwitting exposure of the therapist: transferential and

   countertransferential dilemmas. Journal of Psychotherapy Practice & Research, 10, 14- 

   22.

2. Gerson, B. (1996). An analyst's pregnancy loss and its effect on treatment: disruption and

   growth.  In B. Gerson (Ed.). The therapist as a person: life crises, life choices, life experiences,

    and their effects on treatment. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press.

3. Grunebaum, H. (1993). The vulnerable therapist: on being ill or injured.  In JH Gold and JC

    Nemiah (Eds.). Beyond transference: when the therapist's real life intrudes. Washington, D.C.: