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9661312

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-8-6
pubmed:abstractText
Written from the perspective of intersubjective theory, this article addresses how the leader and group members co-construct the difficult patient. Too often, therapists and patients have tended to attribute difficulties in therapy groups to "the difficult patient" without appreciating how they themselves contribute to the construction, the needs this construction serves, and the potential value of such patients to the group. Mistakes in group leadership, vicissitudes of intersubjectivity, disturbing intrapsychic defenses, and whole-group dynamics interact to produce the difficult patient. Also discussed is the group member who is difficult but who no longer meets the criteria for patienthood. By exploring the factors involved in the co-construction of the difficult patient, the authors hope to guide clinicians in the deconstruction of such impediments, thus allowing the difficult patient to become "just another group patient."
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0020-7284
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
311-26; discussion 327-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-12-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Difficult patients: their construction in group therapy.
pubmed:affiliation
Harvard Medical School, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports