From Therapeutic to Didactic Communities

ISBN-13: 9783659201301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 232 str.

Jos Guim N.

Opis

We have developed eclectic "Intensive Dynamic Brief Group Therapy programs over the last 37 years in a dozen different care units (short-stay units in general hospitals, crisis centers and day units) in Spain and in Switzerland with an orientation toward the so called "Therapeutic Communities". In the last 20 years, the programs have become less psychodynamic and less democratic -somewhat decaffeinated, in fact. This, however, does not mean they are less efficient as this book tries to demonstrate. On the other hand, our experience over the years has shown the negative effects of the "caffeine" administered by certain lines of psychoanalytic action and pseudo-democratic environments. Nowadays, when the leadership of the institutions changes, the programs very likely loose their freshness in favor of more traditional biological interventions. This is why this has been very important to maintain the group training programs we organize for the personnel. They constitute a kind of Didactic communities, assuring in the maintenance of the therapeutic ideology among the professionals.

O autorze

José Guimón, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at the University of the Basque Country, has been Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Geneva and Clinical Professor at NYU. He has published many scientific articles and books, among them: Introduction aux thérapies de groupe, Masson 1994 and Relational Mental Health, Kluwer Academic 2004.