2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Today, the presence of a personal psychotherapist will hardly surprise or frighten anyone. More and more people understand the need for the prevention of neuroses and the treatment of the soul at different periods of our lives. But long-term group therapy is not yet as popular in our country as, for example, in America. In Ukraine, group therapy is still more often used to treat alcohol and drug addicts. Although it works very effectively not only with dependencies. Today, there are already psychotherapeutic groups in which the topics of family or parent-child relationships, professional growth, friendship, sexuality, age and other crises are raised.
What is a group?
The group is a safe micromodel of the world. Here each participant assumes the responsibility to keep confidentiality. At the group, you can get feedback on your actions or inaction. Here, with the help of a leading psychotherapist, there is an opportunity to track and realize your usual behavior in society and try new ways of presenting and realizing yourself in society.
For example, you never show your weakness in public because of the fear of facing shame and rejection. Most likely, you have already had a traumatic experience before, when, in a moment of openness or weakness, they turned away from you. And then the second time to decide to have your weakness noticed is much more difficult. But this is necessary - after all, there is a chance to gain new experience, to discover a new world for yourself, where there are also advantages in your weakness.
People who see your imperfection and vulnerability become closer to you. After all, now they, also far from ideal, can come into contact with you, and more warmth appears in your communication. Suddenly you find yourself with more strength and energy. After all, the energy that went to maintain the mask Mister All I Can or Missis Perfection is released for your spontaneous presentation, good mood and a feeling of satisfaction.
How to choose a psychotherapy group?
It is not uncommon for psychologists from individual therapy to invite their clients to their own groups. But I think this is not a very good practice, especially when there is parental transference to the therapist. And then for you the group can stop at the point of competition with other participants for mother's or father's love and recognition.
It is best when your personal therapist and group lead coach are two different people. At a minimum, you will have the opportunity to gain experience from different specialists, at the maximum, to develop new qualities and skills much faster and more efficiently.
Pros and cons of the group
In a group, the level of personal tension is often higher than in individual therapy. Since social connections are established with several participants at once. In tete-a-tete work, it is impossible to follow the way of building your contact in society, and in the group your conscious and unconscious behavior patterns immediately emerge. But in the group it is difficult to work through the problems associated with the fear of intimacy. It is rather a way to delay it. The larger the group, the easier it is to escape and hide from the intolerance of prolonged close contact with one person. When you are alone with a psychotherapist, there is almost no chance of remaining in the background and meeting with another person is inevitable.
Article author: gestalt therapist, crisis psychologist, head of the "Healthy Life" column Yulia Chayun
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