Partners in therapy: using the co-therapists' relationship in a group

While this article has been necessarily narrow in scope in order to develop the theme of gives some direction toward other related aspects: the process of relationship development was alluded to but not presented; the transference phenomenon has been the subject of numerous psychiatric articles and could be further explored in the co-therapy situation; and the value of preservation of group interactions on recording tape or videotape for analysis by co-therapists could be researched. The final implication that should be left with the reader concerns the broader application of the co-therapy relationship: in what other psychotherapeutic areas, such as individual therapy or therapy with disturbed children, could the conjointly-developed relationship between two or more interdisciplinary therapists utilized expediently and efficaciously? While we are not suggesting that co-therapy is a panacea, we do hope that more thought will be given to the application of interdisciplinary co-therapy in various psychiatric settings and situations.