TY - JOUR
AU - Schneider, Wolfgang
AB -  The Intended-Dynamic Group Therapy, until the unity almost unknown in West-Germany, represented the most important form of therapy in the former GDR. Its development, its conception of the relevant relationship between group-dynamic and psychoanalytic concepts and in particular its reception of psychoanalytic concepts are discussed. This raises the question of defining the position of this therapy form with the focus on the controverse about its proximity to psychoanalytic therapeutical concepts. Even if we take into account that in the GDR there were very reduced possibilities to articulate psychoanalytic and particularly drive concepts, in our view the Intended-Dynamic Group Therapy cannot be considered as a psychoanalytical form of therapy. It represents a specific therapeutical development of the former GDR which is strongly oriented at social norms. It is first of all oriented at the attitude change reached by the group, that means, at the manifest, conscious behaviour of the patient and therefore focusses at the normative level of behaviour regulation in groups in the sense of interactional group therapy. The authors view this form of therapy as a “historical compromise” in the field of psychotherapy under the circumstances of the former GDR and in this way they take into account both its advantages and its weaknesses.
TI - Die Intendierte-Dynamische Gruppenpsychotherapie als Paradigma der Psychotherapie in der DDR
JF - Forum der Psychoanalyse
DO - 10.1007/s004510050035
DA - 1999-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/die-intendierte-dynamische-gruppenpsychotherapie-als-paradigma-der-WU4XcvvpLo
SP - 42
EP - 57
VL - 15
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -