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This paper, based on two year-long psychotherapy group consisting of six female adolescents, focuses on transference-countertransference reactions in group psychotherapy with difficult female adolescents who are facing the loss of their parents through AIDS. A clinical case is presented to illustrate the complications in the Termination phase with bereaved adolescent patients. The author suggests using Ferenczi's therapeutic techniques in treating adolescents.
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An earlier revision of this paper received The Florence Robinson Rondell Memorial Award for the best paper on adolescence at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, June 1996.
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Etty Cohen, C.S.W. “You've lost me, you've lost other people in the group”: Transference-countertransference matrix in the termination of difficult adolescent patients in group therapy. J Child Adolesc Group Ther 6, 181–201 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02548416
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