Jerome Gans is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Associate in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has been leading, supervising, and teaching about group therapy for forty years. He has published widely on group and individual therapy, psychological aspects of physical rehabilitation, liaison psychiatry and psychotherapy and literature.
This book contains eleven selected papers on difficult topics group therapists encounter in their work. Based on the author's forty years in the field, these papers include the topics of shame,... (more)