Using psychodynamic understanding of group process in interpersonal training as sociotherapists’ and psychotherapists’ teching method

Abstract

The article is a description of the method of educating sociotherapists and psychotherapists within the Psychodynamic Study of Sociotherapy and Youth Psychotherapy at the Krakow Psychodynamic Center. The history of the creation and evolution of interpersonal training as a method used to prepare professionals working in intensive interpersonal contact is characterized, and a variant of training used at the Krakow Psychodynamic Center is described. The most important assumptions of the psychodynamic understanding of the development of the group process are outlined and examples of its practical application in a training group are presented.