Group Therapy Research Paper

Religions or the lack of it are a big part of who we are. Our scale of moral values, spiritual belief and norms of conducts are intrinsically connected with our religious point of view and they can be the source of our biggest strength and sageness in life or the origin of a cognitive dissonance that could only make us unhappy if we cannot solve it.
As a homosexual man I struggled in my teenage years to come to terms with my sexual orientation. The son of a caring but distant father in the military, I grew up trying to stick to the male paradigm dictated by the society in the distant 70s in Argentina, since then the edifice of a masculine identity has been under a big transformation as feminism criticized and questioned the gender construct.
I and one more of the participants were the sons of a man in the military, two of the participants where European, two were from countries of the Mercosur, the Common Market of the South. The simplest definition of a group is two or more persons connected by the same or different types of social relationships. Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which a group of people are selected following some specific criteria, in a careful way, to meet regularly with a psychotherapist. The Austrian neurologist and father of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), defined a group as "a number of individuals who have put one and the same object in the place of their ego ideal and have consequently identified themselves with one another in their ego." Group members usually share a mutual identity, they influence and interact on each other. A group therapy have a number of emergent qualities and roles, follows rules and norms, have a leader and sometimes a coleader and possess expectations that are not always fulfill or that can be affected by different factors belonging to the behavior of the group as such or by the individuals and their own conduct. Therapy group looks to assist its members to develop emotionally and to decipher and resolve personal problems utilizing the synergy of the group under the guide of the therapist who leads it. Yalom (2014) states that a group becomes a social microcosm, and members’ behavior in the group echoes their outside comportment. This is precisely the most powerful tool of group therapy to help its participants to change and transform their lives. In this context one should assume that group therapy can potentially change people´s lives and of course we also assume that the desire change is for better, however this is not always the case when ethical and clinical issues arise and they are not properly