Group Psychotherapy Syllabus

1. Function and Dysfunction in Groups (Chapters 1 and 2)
2. Powerlessness and Free Association in the Group (Chapter 3)
3. Unmanageability and Resistance in the Group (Chapter 4)
4. The Group's Relationship with Authority (Chapter 5)
5. Surrender and Group Transferences (Chapter 6)
6. Re-enactments (Chapter 7)
7. Working Through in the Group (Chapter 8)
8. Exporting Progress across the Group Boundary (Chapter 9)
9. Taking up Space in the Group (Chapter 10 and 11)
10. Termination as a Group Process (Chapter 12)

Residents will also have the opportunity to participate in a group relations conference that I will be directing (with Dr. Robert Lipgar as associate director) in December. Participation in the conference is intended to be optional.

Course text: Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message by Jeffrey D. Roth, MD, (2004), The Haworth Press

Goals and Objectives

• Learn about the indications and contraindications of group psychotherapy.
• Gain familiarity with the group therapist's role.
• Understand the concept of time, role and task boundaries as these relate to group function.
• Extend the concept of transference in individual therapy to the group setting.
• Learn about projective identification in groups.
• Gain familiarity with forms of expression of affect and resistances to the expression of affect in groups.
• Learn about the integration of other forms of treatment (psychopharmacology, individual and family therapy, mutual help groups) with group psychotherapy.

Course Goals and Objectives

• Addiction Psychiatry
• Adult Psychopathology
• Basic Clinical Skills
• Cultural Rounds
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Group Psychotherapy
• Intensive Sequence

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