The Conductor’s Self-disclosure of Negative Countertransference in Group Analytic Psychotherapy

Abstract

In this article, I will present the contribution of the conductor’s self-disclosure of negative countertransference in group analytic psychotherapy and its advantage over interpretation in the working through of projective identification that leads to a therapeutic impasse. I will also discuss the issues of timing of self-disclosure and spontaneity versus judicious self-disclosure. The presented ideas will be demonstrated through vignettes from analytic groups that I conduct.

Relational Group Analysis. A Response to R. Billow: Relational Group Psychotherapy: An Overview: Part II: Relational Models of Group Process, June 2017

“…And finally: It seems that group analysts have already begun to think and communicate in relational terms. The following are some of our contemporary contributions: Relational moments of meeting, dialogue and witnessing (Schlapobersky, 2016); the question of self-disclosing of the conductor’s negative countertransference (Warhaftig-Aran, 2016), the group as a relational field (Weinberg, 2015; Weegmann 2014), relational perspective on the individual and society (Roseneil, 2013) and holding in relational terms (Yogev, 2008).…”