2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
What helps in group psychotherapy? There are enough therapeutic factors; many authors and schools of psychology distinguish different ones. Some are argued about, others, unconditionally, agree. One of these factors is dedication in the group.
It is difficult to imagine a group member who does not give anything to the group at all. Some are more, some are less. Yes, there are those who have absolutely no value in telling about themselves and their difficulties to other, the same "sick" people. Usually they say: “How can a person who has a lot of problems himself help me? Why would I tell him something? How will it change my state in general, will I feel better? " It is not only dialogue with another group member that helps. Mutual support helps, consolation of each other in a difficult emotional situation. When you share your problems, you are not just talking about yourself and communicating something to others, but also building the emotional contact that is essential for effective group therapy. Also, other blacks of selfless self-giving are manifested: a person tries to be useful to another and the group, seeks not only to come and get attention and help from the group, but also tries to do something himself; sacrifice themselves while forgetting about themselves, very often many participants devote all the time and energy of the group to solving the acute problem of one, at this moment they understand (or feel, and sometimes both) that the need of the other is stronger.
My experience, the experience of colleagues, as well as numerous articles and books show that when a new member enters a group, it is very important for him to hear from others already in the group how important it was for them to get support in the group, while more than one member did not require nothing in return. Someone will talk about how he himself helped and this supported and filled him with strength.
If a person has been in a group for a long time and maintains a constant state of fatigue, confusion, depression, demoralized. It may be therapeutic for him to hear how he helped another simply by empathizing and empathizing. Some, at such moments, do not hide their sincere and strong surprise. After all, they did not think that their sympathetic, attentive gaze, words of support, their own response emotions could have such a strong positive therapeutic effect on others. A person “spreads his wings” when he realizes that someone needs him, this allows him not to focus so much on his problems, to distance himself from them. Sometimes the participant is so immersed in himself and does not notice the attempts of others to help him, he has no opportunity to change something until the necessary distance between him and his difficulties appears. Sometimes you just need to look at yourself and the problems with a fresh, not blurry look.
It is important for the group analyst to maintain and encourage selfless giving in the group. It is impossible to build a balanced relationship. The balance in which how much a person gave and received the same amount is fantastic and not achievable in real life and in a real therapeutic group.
The best therapeutic results are achieved by those group members who strive to give more than receive, of course, there is also a certain edge here and the group analyst must feel it. The biggest role in recovery is played by no, not the therapist of the group, but the other members!
For the most part, the sites themselves help each other, provide support, inspire faith in a happy future, calm down in case of failures, understand difficulties. And most importantly, they feel each other and exchange feelings.
If you still have questions on this topic, I will be happy to answer them.
Mikhail Ozhirinsky - psychoanalyst, group analyst.
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