Complementary individual and group analytic training for future psychotherapists

Whereas individual training analysis offers the candidate the possibility of thoroughly working through unconscious tendencies, desires, and anxieties that come to the foreground, a dyadic setting group analysis permits one to observe and to analyze all the many narcissistic, power, and rivalry problems that are activated in a group setting, and to undergo a social learning process. The author describes the value of training for the (later) activity as individual or especially as group analyst. This training includes participation in an analytic self-experience group (psychodynamic group process), supervision by an experienced group analyst of the work done in an analytic group, and comoderating of an analytic group by two psychotherapists.