A Resident Group Process Training Seminar
ROGER W. SHERMAN M.D.1, and
ARTHUR M. HILDRETH M.D.1
1 Senior assistant resident in psychiatry, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 21205
The authors describe a useful teaching tool in a psychiatric residency, an ongoing group process seminar. In it residents learn to recognize and deal with the forces of competition, scapegoating, dependency, and helpless rage at the administration. Studying these forces makes it possible to understand and effectively counter similar processes in other groups such as inpatient wards.
