Acting-Out: Its Functions Within Analytic Group Psychotherapy and Its Transformation into Dreams

In group processes, acting-out has diverse functions, all of them equally important. It has an intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group dynamic function. Not only may it be understood as a form of resistance, but also in its communicative and reparative potential. The authors investigate the thesis th...

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Published in:International journal of group psychotherapy 2002-07, Vol.52 (3), p.337-353
Main Authors: Richarz, Bernhard, Römisch, Sylvelin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acting Out
Adult
Analytical group psychotherapy
Biological and medical sciences
Dreams
Female
Group Processes
Group psychotherapy
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotherapies. Psychological and clinical counseling
Psychotherapy, Group
Transformation
Treatments
Unconscious (Psychology)
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Summary:In group processes, acting-out has diverse functions, all of them equally important. It has an intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group dynamic function. Not only may it be understood as a form of resistance, but also in its communicative and reparative potential. The authors investigate the thesis that acting-out also contains the seed for change, thus helping patients divest themselves of pathological behavior. Using a group process as an example, this article shows how boundaries can be drawn between past and present experiences while using the communicative and reparative functions of acting-out. Unconscious psychodynamics can then be transformed from acting-out into dreams.
ISSN:0020-7284
1943-2836
DOI:10.1521/ijgp.52.3.337.45513