Pertti Muurinen
Pertti Muurinen is a psychologist, psychoanalytic individual psychotherapist (advanced special level), group psychoanalyst and training group psychoanalyst, psychotherapist trainer in individual psychotherapy, and supervisor. He has the highest grade both in psychology and also in social psychology (group work line). He has been working as a private practitioner since 2000. Previously, he was working mainly in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric outpatient clinics. He has been the chair of the Finnish Group Psychotherapy Association since 2017 and is the chair of its trainer training committee. He held the leadership role in two one-year-long training programmes, “Challenges of immediate management in the work group” organised by the Finnish Group Psychotherapy Association. He has been director for group therapist trainer training organised by the Association in cooperation with the University of Helsinki. He has worked as a trainer in many psychotherapist programmes organised by Therapeia Foundation. He has written about projective identification, transference and developmental illusion in psychotherapy, countertransference, leadership, geriatric psychiatry, and book reviews for works by Salman Akhtar and Vamık Volkan.
Group Dynamics in Therapy and Supervision: Reaching the Unconscious
This valuable book presents the theory and practice of group psychotherapy and shows what can be achieved with psychoanalytic group psychotherapy and group work supervision, and why it is such an... (more)