MGA0002

A psychoanalytic approach to group functioning

(MED)

Not offered in 2002

Dr S Rustomjee

5 points + 15 seminars + First semester

Synopsis: Topics include history of the development of group psychotherapy; Freud0s monograph on group psychology; ego and the id; introduction to group concepts by Bion, Foulkes and other major contributors; group dynamics and defence mechanisms in group; resistances in group; projective identification in dyads and groups; aspects of transference/countertransference in groups; boundary issues in groups; and interpretation in analytically oriented groups.

Assessment: Written assessment of 3000 words: 100%