TRANSFERENCE, COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND TELE: THEIR RELATION TO GROUP RESEARCH AND GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY

Abstract

The time has come to evaluate the advances made by psychotherapy and to spell out, if possible, the common denominators of all its forms. Most of the leading protagonists of the classic period of the individual methods of psychotherapy are gone, from the American as well as from the European scene: Freud, Janet, Adler, Ferenczi, Rank, Meyer, Brill, Je]iffe, to mention a few. Only the glamor over their graves is left; sic transit gloria mundi. Most protagonists of group and action methods are getting aged and respectable, but the problem remains: How can the various methods be brought into agreement, into a single, comprehensive system? In the course of these lectures, I am going to stress the common denominators rather than the differences. I will attempt to tie together all varieties of modern psychotherapy.