Para-analytic Group Psychotherapy: A Treatment of Choice for Adolescents

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Abstract
The success of psychotherapy requires that the type of therapy be matched to the nuclear and peripheral problems of each patient. Because of the transitional personality organization of the adolescent, his status-less position in adult society, his fluid identifications, sexual tensions and anxieties, and his rebelliousness, the adolescent patient cannot develop adequate positive transference to an adult, thus making him difficult to reach by individual psychotherapy. The group of peers is the haven of security for all adolescents and should be utilized in the treatment of disturbed and wayward youths. However, in these groups strictly psychoanalytical procedures are strongly resisted by the adolescent because of his emotional fragility and psychosexual immaturity. The interviews, therefore, have to be reality oriented and diluted by orthopedagogical, guidance and counselling procedures, but these need to be based on the fundamental concepts and assumptions of psychoanalytic theory.

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