Ego and Self Psychology Applied

Reviews the book, Ego and Self Psychology: Group Interventions With Children, Adolescents, and Parents edited by Ester Schaler Buchholz and Judith Marks Mishne (1983). Buchholz and Mishne have organized a collection of papers representing a wide variety of group interventions with children, adolescents, and parents. Their explicit purpose is to apply the "newer" psychologies--namely, the theories of ego and self psychology--to these interventions. Although the authors do not make the point directly, the papers collected here represent a dual application--at least in part. That is, one application is to populations not originally or previously approached from one or the other of these points of view (e g., adolescent drug addicts and their families), and the second, more focal, application is to a variety of therapeutic group modalities as distinct from individual treatment. One of the major flaws of this book is the neglect to make explicit some of the important questions regarding the relation between theory and practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)