Group AnalysisPub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.1177/05333164221131740
Alice Mulasso
{"title":"Reflective citizens koinonia matrix in movement","authors":"Alice Mulasso","doi":"10.1177/05333164221131740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221131740","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution is about the Reflective Citizens Koinonia community intervention, with a specific focus on its moving matrix and transmissibility. Starting from the history of this method and its architecture, attention will be brought to the specific features, properties and values that make the matrix move and attune to local contexts. In order to give the reader an idea of the dynamic and emergent themes of RC workshops, some finger food from Chieri (Italy) Reflective Citizens Koinonia (RC Koinonia) first three workshops is presented to the reader, from the foundation without trauma to the first workshop held during pandemic in 2020.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124333743","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 : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1177/05333164221080310
Clarisse Vollon, G. Gimenez
{"title":"From functional dissociation to creativity in groups: The effects of a pandemic on a dance company","authors":"Clarisse Vollon, G. Gimenez","doi":"10.1177/05333164221080310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221080310","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores group creativity following the lockdown in France from March to May 2020. Questioning its impact on established groups led us to formulate two hypotheses. First, the announcement of these measures provoked what Anzieu (1981) has referred to as a ‘state of creative shock’ in existing group structures. Second, the psychic envelope of these groups enabled a group creativity to emerge and be sustained. We support these remarks with an analysis of non-directive and semi-directive interviews (Lincoln, 1995) as well as recordings of sessions of a contemporary dance company, which were carried out via the Zoom platform throughout the lockdown period.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124957066","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 : 2022-09-22DOI: 10.1177/05333164221100915
Carla Penna
{"title":"The Mexican social unconscious: ‘Confusion of tongues’ in tripartite matrices of colonized countries. Response to ‘The Mexican social unconscious—Part I: The roots of a nation’ and ‘Part II: Politics and group analysis’ by Reyna Hernández de Tubert","authors":"Carla Penna","doi":"10.1177/05333164221100915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221100915","url":null,"abstract":"This response is based on Reyna Hernández de Tubert two articles: The Mexican social unconscious—Part I: The roots of a nation’ and ‘Part II: Politics and group analysis’ (Hernández de Tubert, 2021). It discusses the role of the myth of mestization and the myth of conquest in the Mexican social unconscious in Mexican tripartite matrices. It also draws attention to Ferenczi’s trauma theory—confusion of tongues—exploring the psychoanalytic and group analytic ideas on the ‘identification with the aggressor’ in association with the concepts of introjection and incorporation.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129200210","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 : 2022-09-21DOI: 10.1177/05333164221100329
Christine Vickers
{"title":"Edward Glover, John Bowlby, psychiatry, Bion, and the War Office Selection Boards—towards a context for the emergence of group analysis","authors":"Christine Vickers","doi":"10.1177/05333164221100329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221100329","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a reflection on the context from which group analysis emerged in Britain during the Second World War. Edward Glover’s objections to the work of army psychiatry in a radio broadcast in November 1943, and the difficult collaboration between the War Office and psychiatrists as they sought to develop officer selection and training procedures, influenced developments in psychoanalysis, including the emergence of group analysis. It considers the response of the British Psychoanalytical Society whose members were engaged in army psychiatry work alongside colleagues from the Tavistock Clinic. Bion’s and Rickman’s collaboration and the experiments at Northfield were an outcome. The abrupt ending of the first Northfield experiment, and the development of psychiatry more broadly, prompted serious questioning within the Society about its isolationalist policies. The Society’s move to develop its training role, and to participate in post war health, mental health and welfare services was a result. Not only did it ensure the Society’s survival, but enhanced the emergence of group analysis as a discipline within the psychoanalytic project.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130939971","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 : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1177/05333164221121057
Stuart Stevenson
{"title":"The impact of homophobic trauma on gay men","authors":"Stuart Stevenson","doi":"10.1177/05333164221121057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221121057","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on a presentation I made to a Group Analytic Society International (GASi) event on ‘The Impact of Homophobia on Mind, Body and Soul’ in May 2021. Much of what I discuss applies to gay women and people who are transgender. However, I will foreground the experience of gay men because I have more clinical and personal experience in this field. I provide a working definition of homophobia and how it impacts on the psychological development of gay men at various points during their earlier life stages. My contention is that the presentation of gay men in our clinics and practices in terms of their psychological difficulties and issues can be attributed, largely, to the impact of homophobic trauma rather than anything that is innate. This is largely due to gay men, from very young ages, having to manage a wide range of traumatizing negative responses and betrayal from their families and communities, ranging from ostracism to extreme violence and rejection from those who are meant to care for them. The more damaging impacts of these attitudes occur at points in the early developmental stages of gay men when they do not have a mature psychic apparatus with which to process and manage repeated and relentless homophobic trauma. This has implications for their personality formation and can lead to their developing some very unhelpful and dysfunctional defences. It is, in fact, surprising that gay men are such positive contributors to society and are not far more disturbed and destructive, given the amount of trauma that they face throughout their early development. I conclude with a discussion of the clinical needs of gay men.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134133853","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 : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1177/05333164221118467
Carla Penna
{"title":"Book Review: The Portuguese School of Group Analysis. Towards a Unified and Integrated Approach to Theory Research and Clinical Work","authors":"Carla Penna","doi":"10.1177/05333164221118467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221118467","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of the matrix, pattern and groupanalytic process constitutes a specificity of the groupanalytic theory and technique of the Portuguese school of groupanalysis. For Cortesão (1989) the theoretical dimensions (mainly metapsychology and the object-relationship theory) and the technical dimensions (matrix, pattern, levels of experience, and of interpretation) converge towards the analytic objective, which is the installation and resolution of the group transference neurosis. This perspective constitutes the essence of Portuguese groupanalysis and confers on it a markedly psychoanalytic nature.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126237545","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 : 2022-09-07DOI: 10.1177/05333164221118447
K. Mason
{"title":"Book Review: New Horizons in Group Psychotherapy: Exploring the Work of Estela V Welldon","authors":"K. Mason","doi":"10.1177/05333164221118447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221118447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122363222","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 : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/05333164221120886
D. Nitzgen
{"title":"Mass behaviour and mass psychosis: Robert Wälder: An amendment of Freud’s ‘Theory of Mass Psychology’","authors":"D. Nitzgen","doi":"10.1177/05333164221120886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221120886","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Freud’s approach to mass psychology builds on the analysis of the individual ego. The first time he refers to such an analysis of the ego is in his paper on Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920) where he speculated that ‘instincts other than those of self-preservation operate in the ego, namely libidinal ones’ (Freud, SE 18, 1920: 47). However, he conceded that ‘unfortunately, the analysis of the ego has made so little headway that it is very difficult for us to do so’ (ibid; italics mine). It is in the paper on mass psychology where this conceptual lack is elaborated. Nonetheless, the provisional status the ego as an agency did not discourage Freud from positing his main point, namely that in the individual’s psychic life, other people usually must be considered as either ‘models, helpers or opponents’, and thus ‘from the beginning, individual psychology is simultaneously group psychology—in this restricted but legitimated sense’ (Freud, SE 18, 1920: 65). 1120886 GAQ0010.1177/05333164221120886Group Analysis 54(3)Nitzgen: Mass behaviour and mass psychosis research-article2022","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"48 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127774813","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 : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/05333164221118431
Cosmin Chita
{"title":"Introduction to day two: One hundred years since Freud’s group psychology: Challenges for groups in the 21st-century","authors":"Cosmin Chita","doi":"10.1177/05333164221118431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164221118431","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the second day of this year’s GASI workshop, 100 years after Group psychology and analysis of the ego (Freud, 1921) and two years ‘cum pestilentia’. As we will be trying to form a social dream matrix with the help of Marina in a moment, I would like to mention the French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu (1923–1999), who thinks that we enter the group as we enter our dream when asleep. From Anzieu’s point of view, the group is like a dream, ‘Human beings go into groups as they go into dreams’ (Anzieu, 2015: 129). Let us not get annoyed too much by the contingency of this statement—pace, Anzieu! Freud already dared the analogy 100 years ago when he wrote in a footnote: ‘The same extreme and unmeasured intensification of every emotion (in groups—our note) is also a feature of the affective life of children, and it is present as well in dream life’ (Freud, 1921: 78). A few lines earlier he quotes Le Bon, for whom the group ‘is led almost exclusively by the unconscious’ (Freud, 1921: 77), and in another footnote, he summarizes this statement as follows: ‘Unconscious is 1118431 GAQ0010.1177/05333164221118431Group AnalysisChita: Introduction to day two: One hundred years since Freud’s group psychology research-article2022","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128543924","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}