In 2009, Jane G. Goldberg Ph.D. recorded a series of group therapy sessions that came to be titled The Really Real Reality Group Therapy Show, so that viewers could witness first-hand the manifestation of psychic mechanisms as attempts to defend the ego. For instance, in the course of the show, we see the narcissistic defense, as defined by Hyman Spotnitz; we observe the expressions of Freud’s concept of Eros (love) and Thanatos (death and aggression) as group members struggle to find safe, yet authentic, footing with one another, and come to both love and hate each other. Viewers may think the group therapy participants are out of central casting, but they are real people, with real issues, that they have the courage and generosity to share, as they work through their processes with the universe.
You can watch their shared experience and individual journeys right here:
Episodes 1-48 Playlist can be viewed by clicking HERE