The Primary Purpose
The
primary purpose of a long term interactive group is to provide a setting in
which the issues of codependency emerge spontaneously ... Interactive group
therapy works best when members discover themselves behaving inside the group
much as they do in real life – being distrustful, controlling their feelings,
sacrificing their own needs to ensure that others are taken care of, revealing
only carefully chosen parts of themselves ... when they finally understand that
those behaviours reflect habitual and unconscious patterns, the group can
become a laboratory for experimenting with alternative behaviours ...
Dr Timmen Cermak: Diagnosing and Treating Co Dependency (pgs
88-89)
