PS381 Chapter 15: Chapter 15.docx
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Although one can hardly argue that group processes do not exist, their role is viewed as secondary to that of individual processes: wolf believes that the dynamics of the group are secondary to the individual analysis and that the role of the therapist is key, by observing how others in the group communicate with one another, by participating in a situation in which the individual is not the sole object of the therapist"s attention, and by both receiving help from others and giving help to them, the individual can. Ta has an aura of responsibility, of learning how to choose between options, and this can be a desirable alternative to more traditional forms of group therapy that often appear to lumber along at an agonizingly slow pace: critics argue that human problems are complex events that cannot easily be translated into games and that any gains from such procedures are therefore likely to be short live.
