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This article is a response to Miriam Berger's Foulkes lecture on the importance of facts and the healing potential of group therapy. The author reflects on their own experiences working with war veterans and the impact of traumatic events on their lives. They discuss the difficulty of facing the fact that one has killed another human being and the long-lasting effects of such experiences. The author also emphasizes the importance of creating a safe and supportive environment in group therapy to facilitate the sharing of traumatic facts and promote healing. [Extracted from the article]

Group psychotherapy is widely accepted for treatment of patients suffering from psychosis. Nevertheless, some uncertainties remain regarding efficacy of insight-oriented group psychotherapy in these cases. Embracing the thinking of those authors that consider corrective symbiotic experience as essential in psychotherapeutic treatment for patients with psychosis, we explore the possibilities of group psychotherapy in enabling corrective emotional experience in our group therapeutic activity. Through some clinical examples from long-term outpatient group psychodynamic psychotherapy, which was insight oriented, we demonstrate how this method works with patients suffering from psychosis in a carefully selected group. Our experiences are positive, showing that the group analytically informed approach can offer a corrective symbiotic experience to patients with psychosis. However, patients with very deep symbiotic needs, who exclusively demand gratification of their symbiotic transferences, are not recommended for inclusion in group analytic work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the psychotherapeutic model of treatment of war veterans in Croatia with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The symptoms of PTSD are analysed and evaluated, together with associated neurotic symptoms, ways of coping with stress, and indicators of quality of life and depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the authors document their experiences in small and median groups of supervision of conductors and therapeutic teams who are engaged in group psychotherapy with psychotic patients within different institutional frameworks, and discuss dynamics, as well as the enlarging of therapeutic possibilities of group psychotherapy of group-analytic orientation for application in these settings. They propose the possibility that at times the group itself can become the supervisor, i.e. that the supervision might be effectuated by the group, under guidance of an experienced conductor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the author's view on the paper about the psychodynamics of the relationship between staff and difficult patients in the nephrology department. According to the author, the researcher has presented the paper comprehensively, in such a way that it allows the readers to understand every aspect of the issue presented. The paper talks about the two subgroups in the nephrology department, the subgroup of patients and the subgroup of nursing staff. The researcher points out the emotions elicited by each subgroup and offers ways on how to deal with them.