Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves can be to other people, and how little things mean something to them and to others when there is an interaction between the patient and the case-aide worker, they begin to discover that actually, they have a lot of feelings that they didn't know about. The group may point it out to them or the patient may point it out to them by refusing to see them one week after they've missed a session, and they hadn't thought they were that important...
...about six weeks, you begin to get a puzzlement in the group. The case-aide brings the best of intentions. Harvard students -- people in that age bracket, generally--bring a sense of omnipotence to their work: it is as a result of their good intentions that the patient will get well. It is as a result of somebody paying a little attention to him. Sometimes this actually works...
...stops that. I'm talking about the kind of person who feels that if this patient could only realize it's silly to keep banging his head against the wall, he'd stop. We had had some like that, and they do pose a major problem, but eventually, through group pressure, they are ready to become case-aide workers...
...ones who have a smattering of theoretical knowledge get hung up on interpretations instead of listening to the patient and relating to him as a person. Successful case-aides react naturally to a patient and bring things back to the group to find out what they're about. Frequently they are being therapeutic without doing therapy. They try to figure out the patients, but as people, not as cases...
...weeks, we begin to hit a puzzlement, a wondering at the loss of omnipotence, and maybe you begin to get a flaking out. Some people begin to drop from the group; they get discouraged. Three weeks in a row the patient hasn't wanted to see them. They decide the case is incurable, this is a lousy deal, and they drop...