These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: The group as a whole or acting out the missing leader?
    Author: Alford CF.
    Journal: Int J Group Psychother; 1995 Apr; 45(2):125-42; discussion 143-67. PubMed ID: 7759177.
    Abstract:
    To write about a group of individuals is to see them as a single entity for some analytic purpose, even if it is just to label them a group. At issue is the type of unity assumed, its density. The article is concerned with how the consultant or therapist's anxiety may lead him or her to overemphasize the dense wholeness of the group, and so miss a more complex drama, acting out the missing leader, in which members cooperate to create the pieces of a leader who might save them. Not a productive drama, it must be identified before its script can be rewritten.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]