On the Future of Group Therapy Theory |
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Authors: | Victor L Schermer |
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Institution: | (1) 735 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147-2838 |
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Abstract: | The author presents a hypothetical view of group therapy theories as they may evolve over the first decades of the New Milennium. Looking at the problem of prediction from the standpoint of postmodernism and social constructivism, the importance of these perspectives as frameworks of the social sciences is emphasized. The influence of general systems theory, Foulkesian group analysis, object relations theory, self psychology, cognitive-behavioral psychology, and neuropsychiatry are briefly examined with respect to the expected evolution of increasingly sophisticated, detailed, and nuanced theories of group psychology and group psychotherapy. |
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Keywords: | group theory social constructivism postmodernism systems theory object relations theory |
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