Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rivalries among case-aides are not overt rivalries. Nobody hates anybody in the groups. What does sometimes happen is that the roles of the day leader and the professional advisor have to be clarified between them. They have to work together so that the advisor doesn't feel usurped by the day leader and the day leader doesn't feel put down or put himself down to the supervisor. If not, the group will split and form loyalties. This is where professionalism comes in--here, and in answering questions like "What is the effect of electroshock?" or "What does this...
...leader and the supervisor get together frequently enough, the group will cohere. If there is any competition among group members, it spurs them to try different ways of helping their patients. Problems do come up when one member tries to dominate the group by endlessly bringing up his patient...
Other problems come up when one member unknowingly tries to turn the session into group therapy by saying that the supervisor is lousy or that the day leader isn't doing his job or that the whole philosophy of the group is wrong--raising the anxiety of the group in order to get attention for himself. At that point, rather delicate handling of the situation is needed to keep it from becoming group therapy, or to keep the one from being clobbered by the rest of the group...
...went upstairs one night to an entry party and sat around drinking beer for a couple of hours. I had expected a little more interest in what was going on in the world. Everybody was saying nonsensical things. So I left. So I sorta felt alienated from that group and that cut off my relationship to the entry. Across the hall were a couple of socialite types and I didn't get along with them...
...knew the Negroes and Puerto Ricans who were the bus boys and who washed the dishes. I was a bus boy and then a waiter and my role was somewhere between the kitchen and, and...I was young enough so as not to be identified with the white group up front and my status on the job was low enough so I could talk to the people in the back and I was smart enough so I got to be friends with the manager. In effect, I got to observe a microcosm of American society...