Mental Models
Inter Relational therapy
Group Therapy is an event where the therapist´s responsibility is to aid the group to recognize how the members different issues are externalized and how the group, as a whole, convert into an entity that absorb the individual´s disorders or beneficial expression. The inter-relation is treated as a sum of the group, not the individuals. This therapy is in its core very different from personal therapy, but very effective, with the correct therapeutic techniques applied to the group. It does not work as an substitute to personal therapy. The optimal setting is to follow both a personal therapy course, as well as the group therapy, in tandem (with another therapist). The personal therapy help you understand your relationship to yourself and how it is expressed, and the group therapy help you see how it affects your way of relating, both authentic and defensive..
When externalization of traumas are at stake, the group live out the disorders, and the inter-relational dilemmas are open for exploration.
This way is not an substitute to personal therapy, as they are 2 completely different approaches, dealing with 2 different areas of problems that both stem from mirroring flaws.
The optimal team therapy is combined with personal therapy in an parallel slope.