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Group meetings are intended to provide
support, stimulation, and dream work
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Offer insight for coping with everyday challenges.
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Deepen understanding of one's inner world and strengthen the bridge between the inner life and the outer.
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Provide an opportunity to be with others who share common value for the creative and symbolic life.
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Enhance skills for self-expression and for listening deeply that carry on beyond group meetings.
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some thoughts about group therapy
High stress and alienation are core experiences of the modern city, where love and friendship have weakened and given way to a multitude of contacts beyond our capacity for truly human relating. I took to heart Jung's concern about the potential for group process to undermine individuality. I studied his reservations and the methods Jungian therapists devised to overcome them, experimented in a group by incorporating ideas from existential psychology, and eventually lectured on the challenges of group therapy. Over time, I have maintained the conviction that group work is a worthwhile therapeutic adventure and, within the culture of the city, fulfills a true need.