INTRODUCTION TO GROUP THERAPY

An Introduction to Focus Group Research

A focus group refers to a group of people who share some common characteristics. A researcher gathers these people in the group in order that they share their points of view and interact with each other over a specific issue. Focus group and Interview group are used interchangeably in the scientific literature and both refer to a method of collecting data in qualitative studies. Given the impor...

Introduction to Group Structures

1. Group Actions (1.1) A group action of a group G acting on a set S is a map from G × S to S (written as g · s or g(s) for g ∈ G and s ∈ S) such that g1 · (g2 · s) = g1g2 · s and eG · s = s. If a group G is acting on a set S, we call S a G-set. Suppose S is a G-set. Define a relation s1 ∼ s2 ⇐⇒ s1 = g(s2) for some g ∈ G, then ∼ is an equivalence relation. (The equivalence classes are called or...

Introduction to Pseudo-Group

Introduction to the Lascar Group

The aim of this article is to give a short introduction to the Lascar Galois group GalL(T ) of a complete first order theory T . We prove that GalL(T ) is a quasicompact topological group in section 5. GalL(T ) has two canonical normal closed subgroups: Γ1(T ), the topological closure of the identity, and GalL(T ), the connected component. In section 6 we characterize these two groups by the wa...

Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy

ment " make fascinating reading. The author expressly disclaims that his method is meant to supersede orthodox psychoanalysis: it is rather a complementary approach which touches upon the patient's adjustment to social realities in a way which the privacy of the individual analytic procedure inevitably misses. The method employs, in a group setting, the same " tools "? free association, underst...