In this example I will draw your attention upon another clinical characteristic. If not the psychotherapy group becomes another manifestation of the concentration camp with its rumours, gossips, hate and revenge. If these boundaries are maintained the group can become a place where new ways of sharing and experiencing can be found out. During the intimacy-phase repressed memories can be admitted into consciousness.
Expression leads to vehement emotional reactions from narrator and auditor.
Group members often shun these painful emotions and memories through a protection fantasy of not hurting the group members or therapist. If the therapist adopts this resistance he confirms the anxiety of asking. If the therapist respectfully and not intrusively dares to keep on asking he models these possibilities to the groups members. Clients can take over and find their own ways of questioning and use it for mutual help thus linking up with the grown mutual confidence. Group psychotherapy and juvenile war traumatizations.