Abstract
Professional development is a lifelong journey, which always has a specific starting point. Using analysis of a conflict in a therapeutic group, this case study captures the beginning of one such journey.
It describes and analyses therapeutic group sessions by means of the concepts of group process, psychotherapy, and conflict in addiction treatment. The setting is the women's treatment ward of the Department of Addictology at the General University Hospital.
The study features two patients and the conflict between them as manifested in group sessions. The objective of this report is to describe the personal experience and process of a beginner addictologist who uses a theoretical framework to gain an understanding of the group process and seek the significance of the situation for her further journey by treating specific patients.
The purpose of this paper is to mediate casework experience, identify the needs of a beginner addictologist in group work, and, it is to be hoped, encourage other professionals, and not only newly qualified ones, to share the outcomes of their work.