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Working with Couples in a Group: Theoretical and Practical Issues

Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta, Edmonton

Andrea Baggaley

University of Alberta Hospitals in Edmonton

Working with couples in a group is a recent development in group psychotherapy. It makes it possible for an individual therapist to work with difficult couples with entrenched narcissistic and personality conflicts. Despite a wide literature on groups and marital therapies, reports on treating couples in a group are still sparse. A review of the literature reveals the need for more in-depth examination of theory and technique. At the University of Alberta Hospitals' Psychiatric Walk-in Clinic, the authors ran a semi-open psychodynamically-orientated group for six couples for over four years. Theoretical and practical issues are elaborated in this paper, with examples of group interaction and therapist technique.

Key Words: couples • group • psychodynamic • interpretive • marital

Group Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 2, 183-196 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316494272005


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