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ArticleAmerican journal of psychoanalysis2025

The importance of group experience during adolescence and beyond: pathways from trauma to growth.

Andrew I Smolar, Fred Baurer

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Article in American journal of psychoanalysis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Andrew I SmolarTemple University School of Medicine; Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA. ahzsmolar@verizon.net.
Fred BaurerKirkbride Center; Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA.

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Abstract

Beginning with the question of the individual's fitness with their family of origin, the authors describe the variables that determine the adolescent's capacity to join peer groups. Optimally, the adolescent-when cognitive advancement is combined with a specific kind of group psychological mindedness-can consolidate their group identifications. When traumatized, an adolescent's exclusion from groups is characterized by bullying dynamics. Clinical vignettes demonstrate the authors' ways of addressing hurtful and beneficial group experiences within their patients' individual therapies. They include an example from their work together with a specific family. Finally, they offer technical suggestions for this work, including how to recognize when an additional referral for group therapy is indicated.

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Group ProcessesPeer GroupPsychological TraumaAdolescentBullyingFemaleHumansMalePsychoanalytic TherapyPsychotherapy, Groupadolescencebullyinggroup healinggroup identificationintergenerational identification

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