Creative Use of Gender While Addressing Early Attachment, Trauma, and Cross-Cultural Issues in a Cotherapy Group.

GROUP psychotherapy; MULTIPLE psychotherapy; MENTAL illness treatment; EMOTIONAL trauma; PSYCHOTHERAPIST-patient relations; CROSS-cultural counseling; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY

This paper examines how early attachments, trauma, and transference are modified by cross-cultural issues in a group therapy setting. The paper focuses on preparation of an appropriate group after individual treatment, attention to composition in that group, and use of a female­male cotherapist team in helping two Latin American female group members work through their early traumas. In addition, the paper speaks about times when individual treatment with the group therapist of the opposite sex should be added. The paper emphasizes and clarifies how not to get caught up in cultural stereotypes and how the clinician needs to stay with the specificity of the person's organizing experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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