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Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her in spite of her achievements?

Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything—her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: 'You don't need a cure, you need a witness.'

So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying, and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. Rosen's outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect.

Group is a deliciously addictive read, and with Christie as our guide—skeptical of her own capacity for connection and intimacy, but hopeful in spite of herself—we are given a front row seat to the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy—an under-explored process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the clinician will be able to:

• Discuss how the author's psychiatrist conceptualizes confidentiality for group members.
• Compare the psychiatrist's approach to confidentiality in group versus more traditional expectations for group confidentiality.
• Describe potential ethical issues with the psychiatrist's approach to group therapy (e.g., his 'prescriptions').
• Explain the reader's role as a witness to the author's journey to psychological health.
• Debate the ideal characteristics of a group therapy group.
• Assess and discuss the author's attempt to demystify and destigmatize group therapy.
• Critique the psychiatrist's effectiveness in helping the author reach her goals.

Syllabus / Course Instructions

• This course is suitable for CE for beginning, intermediate and advanced level clinicians.
• The Course consists of reading the selected book, successfully completing an online posttest and filling out a course evaluation.
• The printed book or ebook is not included. It must be purchased separately. We have supplied a link to Amazon.com for your convenience.
• Purchasing your course will give you access to both a printable copy of the test and an online version of the test. Print the test to use as a companion as you read the book and answer the questions.
• You cannot exit the online test once you begin, so have your answers available.

Additional Resources On This Site for CE

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• The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
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• Boundaries: When to Say Yes and How to Say No
  by Henry Cloud and John Townsend: 12 CE Credits
• ACT Made Simple (2nd Edition)
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• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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Bio: Christine Tate

Christie Tate is a Chicago-based writer and essayist. She has been published in The New York Times (Modern Love), The Rumpus, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Eastern Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Kiese Laymon selected her essay, Promised Lands, as the winner of the New Ohio Review's nonfiction contest, which was published Fall 2019.

The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers?her psychotherapy group?and in turn finds human connection, and herself.

A Reese's Book Club Pick AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

AMAZON EDITORS SELECTION FOR: Best Books of 2020

"Every page of this incredible memoir, Group by Christie Tate, had me thinking 'I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It would have helped me so much!'... We need each other through the good times and the bad. Please read this book with a group of friends you cherish." ?Reese Witherspoon

"This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read." ?Lisa Taddeo, New York Times bestselling author of Three Women

"Tate's hard-won willingness to become loving and to be loved ultimately shapes a story that has a lot of heart?one that goes straight to the messy center of what it means to interrogate our own limitations and deepest desires, wherever that journey may take us." ?Dani Shapiro, The New York Times

"Tate's candid path to healing is often hilarious and ultimately very touching." ?People

"Tate's writing positions the reader as her witness, watching and cheering as she works her way to psychological health... [Her] commitment to detail serves Group well. So does her plain determination to present herself not as a victorious therapy graduate ? she's a group 'lifer,' and proud of it ? but as an ordinary woman who has been lucky enough to beat some extraordinary demons. Group is consistently determined and grateful, with an appealing strand of self-deprecation and a deep affection for [Tate's groupmates]." ?NPR