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There have been some dramatic changes in recent years in psychoanalytic theory and technique which have influenced us very much and which we have found powerful in our group work. This new framework is based on concepts from psychoanalytic ego psychology which have been synthesized into a theory of psychotherapy called control-mastery theory. This theory is being developed by Joseph Weiss, M.D. along with his colleague Harold Sampson (Weiss, et al., 1977, 1980; Sampson, 1976; Weiss, 1971). Both are on the faculty of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute as well as of Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center. Weiss and Sampson also head a large research group which has been carrying out formal studies of the new theory as contrasted to traditional psychoanalytic theory. (Weiss et al. 1977, 1980).
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Gustafson, J.P., Cooper, L. (1982). Unconscious Planning by Patients for Group Therapy. In: Pines, M., Rafaelsen, L. (eds) The Individual and the Group. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9239-6_43
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