Being ordinary in extraordinary places: Reflective practice of the total situation in a total institution.
This paper examines a 'Foulkesian type' Balint group for psychiatry trainees set in a high secure forensic hospital. Within a Balint group, group processes and dynamics are not examined. Deviation from this format is construed as resistance, and destructively getting in the way of the primary task....
| Publicado en: | Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 196 - 218 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2008
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