Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167510
Reyna Hernández-Tubert
{"title":"Did she read my article? Reply to Elizabeth Rohr’s ‘Response to ‘The Mexican social unconscious—Part I: The roots of a nation’ and ‘Part II: Politics and group analysis’ by Reyna Hernández-Tubert’","authors":"Reyna Hernández-Tubert","doi":"10.1177/05333164231167510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167510","url":null,"abstract":"I have just read Elizabeth Rohr’s (2021) response to my two-part article on ‘The Mexican social unconscious’ (Hernández-Tubert, 2021a, b). This generated mixed feelings in me. On the one hand, she has obviously spent much time and effort in writing it, and this is to be appreciated; she clearly knows Mexico and her account of recent events in my country is mostly accurate, although I cannot share her interpretation of such data. On the other, her account of what she deems to be my main argument is so alien to the meaning I intended to convey that it made me wonder if she had actually read my article, or what had she read in it, perhaps only her interpretation in her own terms, without trying to understand my argument, before expressing her disagreement with it. This type of reasoning is well-known in logic as the ‘straw-man fallacy’ (in this case a ‘straw-woman fallacy’), which occurs when someone takes another person’s argument and distorts or exaggerates it, turning it into an absurdity, and then attacks the first party and disqualifies her for having said what she never said. Such argumentative strategy may be summarised in the motto, ‘Turn your opponent into a straw man and then criticize him for being a dummy.’ 1167510 GAQ0010.1177/05333164231167510Group AnalysisHernández-Tubert: Response to Rohr research-article2023","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130378364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1177/05333164231171024
Arturo Ezquerro, D. Allen
{"title":"Dr David Malan DM, FRCPsych (1922–2020): A breath of fresh air for psychoanalysis and mental health","authors":"Arturo Ezquerro, D. Allen","doi":"10.1177/05333164231171024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231171024","url":null,"abstract":"This hybrid piece of work aims to pay tribute to David Malan (21 March 1922–14 October 2020) who has been one of the great influences on open-minded psychoanalysis and psychodynamic mental health. Inspired by the work and ideas of John Bowlby, Michael Bálint and Habib Davanloo, over five decades, Dr Malan committed himself to finding effective treatments that would help the largest number of patients in the shortest possible time, and pioneered research into brief dynamic psychotherapy as well as into group psychotherapy. He came to the conclusion that the type of therapy matters far less than the relationship the patient has with the therapist or therapy group, since patients can explore more confidently and make progress more significantly when they perceived the therapist or therapy group as a secure base, a key tenet of attachment theory. More specifically, he pursued a new tradition of short-term psychotherapy that built a bridge between psychoanalytic and more active cognitive-behavioural approaches, and managed to live up to the high ambition for integration of science and meaning in psychiatry, psychotherapy (including group psychotherapy) and psychoanalysis.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117167959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167506
Reyna Hernández-Tubert
{"title":"A Latin-American view — reply to Carla Penna’s commentary on my paper","authors":"Reyna Hernández-Tubert","doi":"10.1177/05333164231167506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167506","url":null,"abstract":"Soon after I had finished and submitted my response to Elisabeth Rohr’s (2023) most critical commentary on my two-part paper on the Mexican social unconscious (Hernández-Tubert, 2023a, b), I had access to Carla Penna’s (2023) commentary on the same. This was a completely different matter and breathed a rush of fresh air after Rohr’s misunderstanding of my paper (Hernández-Tubert, 2023c), since Carla had fully understood what I was talking about. This was no wonder, since she comes from Brazil, a country that has many historical similarities with Mexico. However, at the beginning, Carla had some doubts about whether she should write this commentary, because she had never been to Mexico and did not know much about its history or culture, and she feared that she might ignore the differences between the two countries. This she wrote in the following terms:","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114396266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1177/05333164231165612
Felix Korf
{"title":"Book Review: Berliner Gruppenanalyse","authors":"Felix Korf","doi":"10.1177/05333164231165612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231165612","url":null,"abstract":"Already the title catches our attention: Berliner group analysis1 instead of just group analysis in Berlin. The editors imagine the reaction ‘Now you are called “BIG” [Berliner Institute for Group analysis], now you even want your own group analysis’; and they finally respond ‘wholeheartedly: Yes’ (p13/22). Indeed this book is evidence of a lively group-analytic community in Berlin; it contains contributions of members of the BIG. Unlike other German group-analytic institutes, the BIG was not founded in affiliation with the IGA London. As it is relatively young, founded in 2003, the editors speak of the BIG as different from older ‘established’ group-analytic institutes. But the ability to produce such a book only 16 years later certainly is a statement in a world of competing organizations—and will be important for the members of an institute that sometimes perceived itself as a ‘travelling circus’ (Husemann, see below). The book consists of 21 articles by 16 authors. The contributions are independent, and some have been published earlier, going back to 2001 (Meyer). Like in a group, the authors bring different perspectives and topics around the common theme; the book appears like a mosaic or puzzle, and some work is left to the readers to put the puzzle together. The authors’ different writing styles are refreshing. And because the individual texts can stand on their own, the book does not need to be read from cover to cover. The grouping of the articles into the three sections ‘history’, ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ is a good idea, but unfortunately the texts do not fall easily into these categories.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132631642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-06DOI: 10.1177/05333164231163025
Wolfgang Martin Roth
{"title":"An unpublished letter of S.H. Foulkes to Wilfred D. Abse. A unique summary of Foulkes’ late group analytic thinking","authors":"Wolfgang Martin Roth","doi":"10.1177/05333164231163025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231163025","url":null,"abstract":"In this unpublished 18 page letter to his friend Wilfred D. Abse, the late Foulkes offers new autobiographical information about his intense relationship to theatre in his early years. He makes a final attempt to clarify the contribution of Trigant Burrow to the history of group analysis in comparison to his own. In the letter he indicates a kind of estrangement from the London group analytic scenery. He conceives this letter as a summary of his late group analytic conceptualizations.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"407 21","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134289161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167520
I. Urlić
{"title":"Book Reviews: The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations: Global Perspectives on the Neural Underpinnings of Intergroup Behaviour, Ingroup Bias and Prejudice Molenberghs, Pascal (ed.).","authors":"I. Urlić","doi":"10.1177/05333164231167520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123971639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-05-05DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167507
Reem Shelhi
{"title":"Book Reviews: Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments Ababio, Baffour and Littlewood, Roland (eds).","authors":"Reem Shelhi","doi":"10.1177/05333164231167507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167507","url":null,"abstract":"Background In 1983, responding to an increasingly multi-racial and multi-cultural matrix in Britain which highlighted inadequate psychodynamic psychotherapeutic provisions for minority groups, Nafsiyat was set up by Jaffar Kareem. The three-syllable name ‘Nafsiyat’, Kareem explained, is made up of three ancient languages that ‘stand for MIND, BODY and SOUL’ (1992: 14). In 1992, Kareem co-edited Intercultural Therapy: Themes, Interpretations and Practice (2019), as a way of exemplifying a culturally sensitive, anti-racist, anti-colonial and holistic approach that paid attention to the personal histories of minority ethnics, including ancestral inheritances of traditions and traumas. It also challenged the assumption of distress always being located in the individual alone.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133838572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Group AnalysisPub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167525
A. Beazley
{"title":"My first experience of group analysis","authors":"A. Beazley","doi":"10.1177/05333164231167525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231167525","url":null,"abstract":"This article will explore and examine group analytic theory through the lens of one author’s felt experience as a participant in a professional experiential group. With the assumption being that our most useful psychotherapeutic tools are born from the therapist’s own introspection, the idea that our existential and individual fear of annihilation is intimately fused with our need to belong and connect, is explored. This article routes around in the murky unconscious of how the subject of racism is held in the body of the author and that of the group and how she as a psychotherapist navigates and works alongside what is unearthed. A semi-academic clinical vignette to position theory in a practical understanding and felt sense of a psychotherapist where the colour of her skin provokes the psychotherapeutic.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122754155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}