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Authors:Yağmur Ulusoy Doğmuş, Murat Canpolat Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. Although it is known that the group stages share similar dynamics and the leaders have certain tasks in each stage, the experiences of group members could differ in each stage. The main purpose of this case study is to understand how guidance and psychological counselling students participating in a psychodrama group are affected by the process and how they experience each stage of the group. In this context, a 12-week psychodrama study was conducted with group members (n = 9), and qualitative data were collected to determine the self-perceptions of the members at the end. The thematic analysis of the study revealed six main themes: first emotions, difficulties, self-awareness, changing emotions, achievements and what they left to time. In the first sessions, it was observed that the members had difficulties in disclosing themselves and role-playing because they were excited, scared and worried. In the proceeding sessions, as the members gained confidence in the group and realized that they would not be judged, they relaxed and disclosed themselves. Many of the members who experienced many realizations noted the changes in themselves in the final sessions and emphasized that they needed time for some skills to be realized. In addition, the development of counselling skills such as empathy, listening and self-awareness as a result of the research reveals that psychodrama is a promising approach in developing and teaching counselling skills. Practical recommendations are presented for mental health professionals and researchers based on the study findings. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-08-07T05:13:46Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241258163
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Authors:Martin Weegmann Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The European Reformation saw a dramatic rise of new confessional groups, sects and schisms, accompanied by widespread group hostility and violence. In a critical discussion of Elias’ ‘civilizing process’, the key changes ushered by the Reformation, from the government of state, church, and souls, are considered. As society sought to expunge its ‘ultimate enemies’, the era of reform was a time of widespread witchcraft trials, trials that are examples of horrific social disfiguration, with continued relevance to understanding modern social and group violence. Several examples of the latter are considered. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-08-06T05:23:01Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241264216
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Authors:Giles W. Story Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. ‘Show and tell’ is a primary school activity wherein a child shows an object to the class and tells a story about it. I use this metaphor to understand group communication, with reference to Foulkes’ communicative hierarchy. I define ‘showing’ as bottom-up communication, which presents an object in search of a containing narrative. Conversely, ‘telling’ is formalized as top-down communication, providing a container in search of an object. I am concerned with what might happen, so-to-speak, if a child were to bring an object to the class only to sit in silence, or were to tell a story without bringing an object. With reference to clinical material from an analytic group, I describe instances of both kinds of communicative mismatch. I propose that the therapeutic work of the group balances showing with telling and vice versa, and in so doing fosters a more ‘joined up’ communication amongst the participants. Here, the conductor does well to have in mind an aphorism from creative writing: ‘show, don’t tell’. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-07-29T05:42:42Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241260794
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Authors:Jane Dudley, Mike Caton Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The authors use the theoretical framework of group analysis to facilitate experiential small and median groups for students on trainings in individual psychodynamic psychotherapy. Even though in our many years of clinical and educative group practice it would usually be a definite no, the authors found themselves debating whether members who revealed they were a couple in the past could in fact be together in a group. This discussion prompted the authors to reflect closely on their co-facilitator relationship, causing them to consider what they understood by ‘couple’.It offered an opportunity (previously unconscious) to explore what they had experienced in group trainings and within their own group practice—that of the frequent binary fixing of conductors as male/female and heterosexual, and whether such fixing may be a defence by the group, including the group conductors, against allowing and exploring a more fluid, nuanced exploration of gender and sexuality. The authors propose that instead of small experiential groups, median groups may offer a richer opportunity for such exploration. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-07-27T07:54:07Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241260419
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Authors:Farhad Dalal Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The medieval Christian notion of the Great Chain of Being that arose in the ‘West’, and the Hindu caste system that arose in the ‘East’, are both rationales that legitimate specific worldly hierarchies as expressions of the Natural Divine Order. I will argue that the culture and conventions of psychotherapy training institutions embody these sorts of hierarchies and ways of thinking to a greater or lesser degree. More specifically, I will argue that the values integral to the Great Chain of Being are embodied in the relations between trainer/trainee and therapist/client; and that the conventions and structures of the psychotherapy profession as a whole echo those of the caste system. In contrast, I propose that the values found in Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity is that which we should aspire to. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-06-21T05:01:38Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241260417
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Authors:Susanne Vosmer Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. This article examines whether group analysis is suitable for treating Parkinson’s disease. Brief descriptions and conceptualizations of Parkinson’s are provided. I illustrate how conductors could treat mild parkinsonian manifestations in traditional analytic groups by making adaptions to dynamic administration and technique. Counter/transference may provide vital insight into implicit (unconscious) memory and group members’ functioning. While group analysis could be beneficial, it might be harmful, when conductors lack knowledge of neuroscience. On its own, group analysis is inadequate to address the needs of severely depressed and demented people with Parkinson’s. For these clients, groups should only be conducted as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Furthermore, group analysis may be offered as an adjunct to cognitive stimulation and psychoeducational groups. However, before treating people with Parkinson’s, conductors should acquire sufficient knowledge of neurological disorders and the brain, I suggest. This is in line with Foulkes’ thinking. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-06-21T05:00:18Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241260368
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Authors:Timothy Paris Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The group analytic concept of the matrix was developed by Foulkes and is constantly being redeveloped by contemporary group analysts. This article outlines the basic structure of the matrix as proposed by Foulkes and how this has been built upon over time. A split between the objective, quantitative biomedical and subjective, qualitative psychosocial approaches is explored. The article attempts to demonstrate the arbitrary distinction between the two positions, as well as to overcome polarization of thought through synthesis and the use of metaphor. Finding balance and mutuality between the two brings the homeostatic function of the organism, brain, mind, and matrix to the foreground. This is complemented through the examination of current neuroscientific research and shows how the two positions enrich and add nuance to our understanding of the matrix as a fluid, ever-changing, and dynamic structure.This article also explores the relationship between the matrix and the group conductor. This relationship has the potential to offer containment and security for the group and can be harnessed to improve the conductor’s clinical confidence, as well as the clinical care of group members. This is articulated in terms of Gestalt psychology’s ‘figure’ and ‘ground’ as well as psychotherapeutic stances of ‘being’ and ‘doing’. Van der Kleij’s linguistic analogies are elaborated on to explore the concept of the matrix in the total group situation, and how individuals might be able to find structure and meaning in the context of an analytic group. Finally, the author reflects on the process of exploring the group matrix and how this relates to his own development as a psychiatrist and group analyst in training. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-30T05:24:13Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241248622
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Authors:John Schlapobersky Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The essentials of therapeutic practice in group analysis are summarised through three basic principles. The conductor is responsible for fostering a climate that allows each of a group’s members to find their own voice; bear witness to the voices of others; and come out of the shadows together through the group’s discourse.These principles are built on the author’s earlier writing about the speech, silence, and the language of the group which can make a home amongst strangers. They are framed in the ordinary language of daily experience and the parallel idiom of musicology to address the most primary of musical instruments—the voice.They incorporate of a range of other terms and concepts that bring our attention to core complexities at the heart of many peoples’ deepest sources of disquiet arising out of unresolved intergenerational trauma. The group’s work is akin to a mourning process set in motion for hitherto unacknowledged grief. Disturbance can move about unpredictably. Our challenge is to locate and translate hidden, buried or displaced injury into the everyday language of human suffering where seeds can be sown for resolution.This multi-modal presentation is illustrated with clinical vignettes from groups at work and with collage and paintings. It opens with a Paul McCartney song, ‘Blackbird’ (1968), whose music and lyrics give historical significance to the struggle for human rights. Its closing vignettes explore ‘tools for conviviality’ with images of lost and found brotherhood and a spontaneous online ceremony of eating together in China. The paintings of Morris Nitsun bring us to an ultimate agency for change generated by small groups—the shifting mood-scape of their dynamic life. One image conveys the tragedy and desolation of the pandemic, and another offers the natural world’s consolation in beauty. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-29T05:59:39Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241245904
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Authors:Danilo Pešić Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the imbalance in research focus, highlighting a pronounced emphasis on research in the American context compared to the field of group analysis, which is underscored by the identification of two literature reviews. The discussion delves into Lorentzen’s research contributions and the introduction of Focus Group Analytic Psychotherapy. Diverse perspectives on research are presented, with Nitsun and Lorentzen advocating for its importance, while Dalal takes a critical stance. The text investigates discrepancies within key concepts of group analysis, specifically the social unconscious, with Nitsun critiquing an undue emphasis on its significance and questioning its practical relevance in group settings. The relationship between group analysis and neuroscience is explored, shedding light on the reinterpretation of certain concepts through a neuroscientific lens, notably examining the framework of the neurobiology of intergroup relations. Ultimately, the article emphasizes the necessity of believing in and validating the advantages of collective thinking. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-21T10:21:20Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241247813
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Authors:Snežana Kecojević Miljević Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. If we observe group analysis as a figure in the social field, many changes in society undoubtedly shape it both as a theory, a therapeutic method and a form of training. That is how it was and will be. This shaping is slow, discreet but an active process of constant acculturation of both group analysis and group analysts. Wars, migrations, emigrations, cultural diversities create a need for a more flexible and culturally attuned profile of group analysts, who are not only capable of working with diversity, but also within diversity—actively reflecting on their own identity and experience even under the pressure and tormented by problems of preserving their own tent canvas. This is one possible future for group analysis, in the ever-increasing intertwining and cross-fertilization between human sciences such as sociology, history, anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, communicology, art, with no fear of diversity that threatens identity, with openness of new generation of group analysts to heteroglossia. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-21T10:18:20Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241246950
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Authors:Jelica Satarić Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The idea of a social nature of humans clarifies that the phenomena, usually called intrapsychic, such as mind, freedom and ethics are shared property of the group. How does this idea manifest in the group situation' I present some of my reflections and experiences from practice related to this issue. We can see how the desire for sharing and addressing others creates a new, deeper understanding of relations in the group. I describe how a fellow member unpredictably can become the Other. The I-Thou relations, developed in the group, are ethical in their essence, and it is in these ethical relations that trust is created. Such processes never give the feeling of complete understanding and equality. Something is always missing and this is what drives the group to go beyond. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-15T12:32:07Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241248365
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Authors:Jacqueline Butler Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The aim of this study is to determine what might be behind the many recommendations in the literature to pay heed to a group’s readiness and preparation for new members. Specifically, it investigates whether there is potential for a criteria-based approach to assessment of a group’s readiness that can orientate a trainee conductor. It explores some of the literature on the topic from a number of perspectives such as the group’s culture, cycles of maturation, boundaries and unconscious processes. The research method used was a qualitative case study involving trainees and qualified group analysts. The purpose of the focus group was to explore and reflect on the conductor’s understanding of a group’s readiness in the advent of the first new member/s to a trainee’s therapy group. The findings indicate that the motivations and reservations of the neophyte conductor can play a significant role in assessment of the readiness of a group for new members. They also indicate that a criteria-based approach to assessment involving the readiness of the conductor, the group and the new member holds potential for the trainee conductor as a basis for the ongoing growth of their group. Further research might explore how a more mature group can be assessed for readiness for new members including the influence of the location of authority and what the conductor hopes a new member can provide for their group. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-14T11:55:24Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241250256
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Authors:Nicola Walker, Davy de Geeter, Murray Anderson-Wallace, Martin Bhurruth, Frederica Brooks, Claudia Harding, Jill Davice Bird, Christina Fitzgerald, Elaine Jennings, Catherine Collins Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. This article provides a narrative account of a small research study run with a grant from the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) Legacy Fund. It discusses the challenges and opportunities of engaging in research involving interdisciplinary collaboration between trainee cognitive behaviour therapists working in the NHS and group analysts/groupwork practitioners. It makes the case for building on the results of this study by developing a protocol for a pre-post pilot study using a mixed methods approach to explore whether IGA-led groupwork in CBT training has any effect on patient outcomes and service key performance indicators. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-13T05:22:23Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241249093
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Authors:Marcus Price Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. Under the assault of disturbing experiences that seem sealed into a bodily discourse, there appears an increased permeability between the dream space and the psychotherapy space. It is in the forensic in-patient hospital environment that I have commonly sat with a calm and compliant patient to find myself grappling with an overwhelming pull toward sleep. Such tiredness in countertransference can be understood as a manifestation of the weight of buried or repressed disturbance which can only seemingly be registered at a bodily level. Forensic patients are usually the subject of vilification from the courtrooms to sensationalist media reports in a system that further bottlenecks their emotional lives. It seems to me that sometimes there can be a fine line between continuing the trend of condemnation and the taking up of clinical responsibility. It is perhaps one of the most helpful aspects of psychoanalytic work, that we consider the projective processes involved in the criminal justice system. That we look to ourselves and our own countertransference for greater clinical clarity, a radar in the darkness. It is with this in mind that I write an introspective paper focussing on the lens of my own dream life and artistic responses to the environment of a forensic institution. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-13T01:01:12Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241248615
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Authors:Robi Friedman Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. This article looks at the group approach to shared dreams following previous publications, including Dreams In Group Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique (Neri et al. 2002) and further papers1, and a natural extension to a 2022 publication (Friedman, 2022). One innovative perspective is the notion that it is often a ‘collective preoccupation’ which starts a group’s shared elaboration process (dreaming), which to begin with is transmitted through interpersonal and transpersonal communication to a delegated dreamer. Another new perspective is to view dreaming (mental digestion) as the main process of a revised four step ‘dream cycle’. The dream cycle goes from collective preoccupation, through personal dreaming, then through an inner narrative, followed by a potentially shared relational elaboration. This helps to understand that ‘dreamtelling’ is only the fourth step in the shared process of mental ‘digestion’ of peoples’ excessive threats/excitements.In Part I I describe the central approach to a shared dream in group analysis as ‘personal responses first’, meaning the predilection of a free-floating discussion of a dream, involving the whole group’s conscious and unconscious mirroring and resonance, while postponing traditional interpretation. Dreams should be understood as both the result and the motor of group processes. Through the joint elaboration of collective preoccupations, dreams that are shared can contribute to the reciprocal healing of relation disorders and dysfunctional relational patterns.I will describe the four-step ‘dream cycle’, which changes the location of mental digestion. By putting transpersonal and interpersonal communication into action, the individual’s and the group’s mind develops (Köhncke and Mies, (2012)). In the final phase, preoccupying situations and conflictual emotions in dreams are elaborated by free discussion, ‘personal responses first’ which is ‘open communication’ in relational configurations in the ‘society of individuals’ (Elias,1939). This process, which I call ‘dreamtelling’, describes discourse (Schlapobersky, 1993) with potential partners who will ‘(re)dream the dream’, and offer further digestion of the collective preoccupation. A series of clinical vignettes discuss notions such as ‘the location of elaboration’ moves in the relations, e.g. ‘dreaming for others’ and ‘delegation’ as well as the notion of an ‘inner group’ and the unconscious communication between dreamers and listeners.In Part II, I provide deeper exploration of a clinical example in group-analytic group therapy, describing group work with a dream. The uniqueness of the group-analytic approach to the dream’s contents and its communicative aspect will be stressed. Requests for containment preoccupy relations and participants and should be differentiated during the discourse of ‘dreamtelling’. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-10T11:03:20Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241241263
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Authors:Volker Haude Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. With respect to the article by Koukis (2024) the author questions important points concerning self-exclusion, working through, external group events, boundary incidents and bodily experience. He concludes that it is necessary to restore boundaries and facilitate the therapeutic space. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-02T06:34:01Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241241464
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Authors:Carla Penna Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-02T06:32:46Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241241498
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Authors:Robi Friedman Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. After having described communicational and relational characteristics of dreaming and sharing dreams, in Part II, I provide deeper exploration of a clinical example in group-analytic group therapy, describing group work with a dream. The uniqueness of the group-analytic approach to the dream’s contents and its communicative aspect will be stressed. Requests for containment preoccupy relations and participants and should be elaborated during the discourse of ‘dreamtelling’. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-05-02T06:31:22Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241241292
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Authors:Hermann Staats Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. MBT-G and Group Analysis (GA) have common ‘breeding grounds’ but differ in central aspects of their theoretical framework and their level of abstraction. MBT-G can be considered both a setting variant of a primary individual Method (MBT) and a development within the realm of group analysis. The description of MBT-G and GA as two ‘camps’ (Karterud et al.) is discussed. If the ‘camp’ metaphor is used at all, the author suggests MBT-G may be better considered as one of many camps within the area of group analysis. In line with the wish of Karterud et al. for open discussion and dialogue in and about groups, the response addresses developments in group theory and practice besides MBT-G. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-04-18T08:54:25Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241241485
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Authors:Efrat Zigenlaub Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. Social identities play a significant role in the development of personality and various disorders and challenges. In addition, they play an important role in the encounter between representatives of different social groups and can add to personality and interpersonal perspectives to group dynamics. Despite their significance, exploration of social identities occurs mainly in the realms of social psychology and post-colonialist theories and not so much in psychoanalysis, which favours the individual perspective over the social.Foulkes, the founder of group analysis, started a revolution in the field of psychoanalysis when he focussed on the social world and its significant influence on development. However, some of his successors argued that due to political and other reasons, Foulkes did not ‘follow through’ with his own theory and in his therapy groups he did not put sufficient emphasis on exploration of social identities and power relations.This article reviews the concept of social identities through four theoretical disciplines: social psychology, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theories and group analysis. A vignette from an analytic group that has been meeting for two years and coped with the meeting of different social identities in the complex Israeli reality will be discussed. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-03-05T05:45:31Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241231908
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Authors:Daniel Anderson Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. This article explores the intersection between group analysis, feminism, and queer understandings of sexuality, aiming to initiate a dialogue and generate new insights in these fields. I examine key concepts from group analysis, such as the ‘group matrix’ and the ‘social unconscious’, to explore how therapeutic groups can generate openness to others and differences. The article presents group analysis as a historically grounded psychosocial theory capable of bridging gaps between discourses to generate new ways of understanding social identities.The term ‘figuration’ borrowed from feminist and group analytic theory serves as a framework to synthesise conflicting perspectives, with the analytic group serving as a dynamic space of creative tension. By exploring this shared term, previously unconnected subjects can find potential common ground. Elizabeth Freeman’s exploration of queer temporalities and spaces is then considered, followed by an examination of symmetric and asymmetric logic by psychoanalyst Ignatio Matte Blanco. These concepts shed light on conscious and unconscious modes of thought. By juxtaposing the histories of figuration alongside symmetric and asymmetric logic, the article elucidates the consequences for group analysis in understanding sexuality and gender. The group analytic concept of the location of disturbance and the processes involving logic and counter-logic within the analytic group matrix are instrumental in delineating these consequences.By bridging the gaps between fields and encouraging creative engagement, the article contributes to expanding the understanding of sexuality and gender within the context of group analytic theory. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-02-12T07:04:46Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241230035
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Authors:Anastassios Koukis Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The theoretical framework for understanding the sexual relationships developed between members of a group-analytic group is investigated and supported by clinical cases. The circumvention of the members’ identification with the conductor as a leader/ego ideal/Name-of-the-Father as favoured by multi-transference and the members’ and/or therapist’s sliding from desire/symbolic to enjoyment/imaginary, entailing the incursion of the real, play a structural role in the patients’ sexual enactment. Romantic/sexual relations constitute projective identifications in action against the group experienced as a bad object and plead unconsciously for a premature separation from it as a sufficiently good object. This study has clinical implications concerning the monitoring of transference/countertransference, exercising leadership and coping with forced termination in group analysis. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-01-31T06:47:42Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164241226587
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Authors:Roberto Schöllberger Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. A Median Group session supervised by Pat de Maré is presented with discussion. Research is described in which Median Groups were convened in an open psychiatric out-patient service in the community and in a closed psychiatric ward of a general hospital. Their efficacy and the participants’ satisfaction and that of the department staff are described. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-01-19T08:50:47Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164231218238
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Authors:Stuart Stevenson Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. Chemsex is a phenomenon in which, typically, gay men take very powerful and high-risk psychoactive drugs while having sex, often without a condom, otherwise known as bare backing. This frequently, but not exclusively, occurs in a group sex context in a residential or a commercial sex on premises establishment. This use of chemsex can lead to increased rates of HIV transmission, sexual and physical assault, a significant impact and corrosion of mental health and frequent occasions of fatality. Gay men are already a stigmatized group so those who engage in chemsex face multiple stigmas. Christopher Bollas’ seminal paper on Cruising in the Homosexual Arena 1993 (Bollas, 1993) was the inspiration for this article. This article attempts to provide a contemporary psychodynamic and group analytic understanding of the group and inter- and intra-psychic dynamics of more recent developments in gay male cruising practices at this later stage of the AIDS pandemic. The changes result from the demise of the gay male bar scene, its effective replacement with the availability of dating apps, the new digital hook up culture and the aggressive emergence of, for a small subgroup of gay men, the almost overnight replacement of the much less harmful dance floor drugs with extremely hazardous chemsex drugs such as crystal meth, mephedrone and GHB/GBL. Through a group analytic lens this article discusses the challenge of navigating the ungoverned spaces of the extreme and often very dangerous sexual practices in a small but significant subgroup of the modern gay male community. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-01-18T05:06:53Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164231218198
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Authors:Stuart Stevenson Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. The aim of this article is to contextualize, and add, some theoretical and practical scaffolding to our work with men and boys who have suffered from various forms of sexual abuse. This article introduces the concept of the ‘erasing matrix’ in terms of an anti-group relational system and shows how the perverse group dynamics at its core facilitate sexual trauma in terms of selection, grooming and sexual destruction of victims. I describe via case vignettes the presentation of such men and boys who have been affected by sexual trauma. I consider the complex issue of the specific trauma of the sexual abuse of men and boys including those from marginalized communities, many of whom have been very cruelly traumatized and betrayed by institutions in the context of family breakdown, structural oppression and community rejection. I argue that sexual abuse and specifically the abuse of men and boys occurs within powerful social systemic contexts and phenomena that include toxic masculinity and homophobia. I will demonstrate how a group analytic and psychodynamic lens can help clinicians to develop an understanding of the concepts of betrayal, erasure and turning a blind eye as central components of the erasing matrix. This will, I hope, be useful for clinicians engaging with men and boys who have experienced sexual abuse trauma. I will also consider the issue of invisibility, denial and toxic masculinity as significant variables that drive the perverse core of the erasing matrix in the sexual abuse of men and boys. I consider the essential role of the clinician as we carefully enter the deadly orbit of this erasing matrix. The task is to establish a clinical framework and the necessary environmental essentials for our practice within this very complex and painful area of our work. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-01-11T12:11:07Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164231222250
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Authors:Sigmund Karterud, Gordon Gunnarsen, Mickey T. Kongerslev, Lenka Staun, Ulrich Schultz-Venrath Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. In this article we describe and reflect upon the roots of mentalization-based group therapy (MBT-G) and its relationship to group analysis. The original setting for MBT was psychotherapeutic day hospitals that were strongly influenced by group analytic thinking. The challenges from an increasing number of borderline patients initiated theoretical and therapeutic innovations that separated MBT-G from traditional group analysis who responded differently, e.g. by strengthening its ties to object-relational theories that emphasized innate destructive drives. Since then, the dialogue between the two approaches have been meagre in the UK, but more constructive in e.g. Norway and Germany. We argue that MBT-G needs group analytic competence with respect to basic group dynamics, and that group analysis needs revitalization by the theory of mentalizing. We call for dialogues between the two approaches. The authors belong to both camps and speak with reference to experiences in Norway, United Kingdom, Denmark and Germany. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-01-06T10:16:01Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164231218694
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Authors:Grégoire Thibouville Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print. This article reports findings from four group experiments in New Caledonia. They have as a common denominator: the ‘Intermediate Transcultural Space’ as inspired by Winnicott (1971) that all feature the themes of violence, the influence of culture and support group therapy. They all take place over a period of 10 years of practice.I continued to develop each of these group formats until I eventually arrived at an intergenerational, multicultural group for adolescents with a record of violence and criminal offences who fell within the remit of the French Child and Youth Judicial Protection Service along with the Kanak Custody Senate. The group offers an accessible landing stage that allows the young people to move forward along the long road of restoring self-esteem, and transforming their trauma and violent behaviour. Citation: Group Analysis PubDate: 2024-01-05T10:46:17Z DOI: 10.1177/05333164231218877
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