Rupture and Repair in Groups: In-person and Online By Dr. Haim Weinberg
07-12-2025 Online
Sunday, December 7, 2025, 19:00 CET
Registration is required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZUWS9rZvQJSLu0LEUlvOyQ
Description:
Rupture and repair are important processes in (group) therapy. Rather than striving for perfection, the therapist acknowledges that there will inevitably be mis attunements and injuries and focuses on recognizing and repairing such issues. Applying the approach to groups emphasizes enactment instead of interpretation. The emphasis is on acknowledging empathic failures and discussing them with the group, thereby attempting to repair the hurt and creating powerful experiences that members wish to have with their significant others.
Moving to online therapy, the group therapist immediately faces a lot of challenges, many of them seemingly technical ones. Interrupted Internet connections, freezing video, time gaps between lip movement and the voice, difficulties focusing, and being present are some of the obstacles that affect online therapy. The failing technology is tiring, distracting, disappointing, and frustrating. However, if we look at it as another kind of psychological rupture, we can change our view of these failings and see them as opportunities for repair. In presentation, will be summarized the literature about rupture and repair, and bring vignettes from groups.
About Dr. Haim Weinberg:
Dr. Haim Weinberg, PhD is a licensed psychologist in California (PSY 23243) & Israel, in private practice in Sacramento, California, with more than 40 years of experience. He is also a group analyst and Certified Group Psychotherapist. He is past President of the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy and the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society. Dr. Weinberg was the Academic Vice President of the Professional School of Psychology, where he created and coordinates an online doctoral program in group psychotherapy and marital therapy. He published books on Internet groups and about the Social Unconscious. He is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and of the International Group Psychotherapy Association, as well as a Distinguished Fellow of the Israeli Group Psychotherapy Association. He has received several awards, including the Harold Bernard Group Psychotherapy Training Award, the Ann Alonso Award for Excellence in Psychodynamic Group Therapy and the Bob Klein Award for Social Responsibility. Dr. Weinberg published 10 books, 24 book chapters and 55 articles. His books were translated in China, Japan, Romania, South Korea, Czech Republic, and Israel.
Dr. Weinberg developed group therapy training groups in Asia, and is leading online training process groups for therapists around the world.