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The difficult patient in combined therapy: A case study
Peter Praper
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Written in English. | Published: February 14, 2002
Abstract: After the shift of the psychotherapeutic treatments towards the patients with ego-deficits and severe pathology, combined therapy is considered to be one of most important innovations of the last decade – to be correct – in the USA, while Europe still hesitates to explore this possibility. The term Combined therapy indicates individual (mostly developmental analytic) and group (mostly group-analytic) psychotherapy, led by the same therapist. The presented case study includes the carefully examined therapeutic process of a severe shizoid patient. The process was controlled by constant supervision, including both: the patient's changes and reactions of the group, the transference and countertransference phenomena, advantages and difficulties, as well as the outcome.
Keywords: ego-pathology, psychotherapy, combined therapy, case study
