Focusing and crises-fantasy in experiential group psychotherapy
Abstract
Presents a therapeutic technique for intensive group therapy that is used when a participant is flooded with intense affect or manifests behavior that does not seem meaningfully related to the individual's immediate experience or to the group interaction. The idea is introduced of deepening the experience through allowing a fantasy or image to emerge. The elicited imagery appears to be a useful way of getting around resistances, as opposed to the usual analytic dictum of first analyzing character resistances, or the Gestalt approach of attending to the avoidance responses. (18 ref)