Psychodynamic Group Therapy
The aim of psychodynamic group therapy is lasting personality change brought about through non-directive free association. The particular way the therapist behaves in the group is to not "lead" the group in an obvious way. Initially, this will generate a certain degree of anxiety until the group establishes its (usually unspoken) rules. The stance of the therapist allows unconscious dynamics between group members to be examined and personality change to be achieved in the working through of new understandings within the transference and countertransference material.
Psychodynamic groups tend to be heterogeneous in their make-up, which benefits patients with diffuse personality problems an
d interpersonal difficulties that have resulted in chronic states of anxiety and\or depression.