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Group Analysis
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  • Dr David Malan DM, FRCPsych (1922–2020): A breath of fresh air for
           psychoanalysis and mental health

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      Authors: Arturo Ezquerro, Daniel Allen
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      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.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T09:25:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231171024
       
  • 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’

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      Authors: Reyna Hernández-Tubert
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T09:22:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167510
       
  • A Latin-American view — reply to Carla Penna’s commentary on
           my paper

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      Authors: Reyna Hernández-Tubert
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T09:18:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167506
       
  • Book Review: Seidler, C., Albert, K., Husemann, K., Stumptner, K. (eds),
           Berliner Gruppenanalyse

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      Authors: Felix Korf
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-15T07:06:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231165612
       
  • Book Review: Seidler, C., Albert, K., Husemann, K., Stumptner, K. (eds),
           Berliner Gruppenanalyse

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      Authors: Inge Hudson
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-09T09:25:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231165617
       
  • An unpublished letter of S.H. Foulkes to Wilfred D. Abse. A unique summary
           of Foulkes’ late group analytic thinking

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      Authors: Wolfgang Martin Roth
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      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.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-06T11:34:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231163025
       
  • Book Review: Molenberghs, Pascal (ed.). The Neuroscience of Intergroup
           Relations: Global Perspectives on the Neural Underpinnings of Intergroup
           Behaviour, Ingroup Bias and Prejudice

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      Authors: Ivan Urlić
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-05T10:21:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167520
       
  • Book Review: Campbell, Jane. Cat Brushing

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      Authors: Val Parker
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-05T10:20:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167517
       
  • Book Review: Ababio, Baffour and Littlewood, Roland (eds) Intercultural
           Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments

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      Authors: Reem Shelhi
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-05-05T10:18:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167507
       
  • My first experience of group analysis

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      Authors: Anoushka Beazley
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      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.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-04-21T05:14:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167525
       
  • Book Review: Friedman, Robi and Doran, Yael Group Analysis in the Land of
           Milk and Honey (New International Library of Group Analysis)

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      Authors: Dale Godby
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-04-17T05:59:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167541
       
  • Horror movies and the social unconscious

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      Authors: Øystein Førre
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      In this paper I will attempt to show how horror movies function as societies’ nightmares. They can be interpreted as depictions of our collective struggle to integrate and inevitably repress national trauma. In most psychotherapeutic traditions dreams are regarded as valuable communications from the unconscious and vital for psychological maturation. Among dreams, nightmares often point to indigestible experiences on an individual level. Similarly I will argue that horror movies grapple with our collective traumas and can be interpreted just like dreams. They are our collective nightmares. The logic of this approach is based on psychodynamic and analytic theory and the shared characteristics (isomorphism) of watching a movie and having a dream. Relevant psychodynamic theory and movie analysis will be used to further this point.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-04-12T11:13:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231167546
       
  • The use of a discrete large group in a conference setting as consultation
           and community building

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      Authors: Jale Cilasun, John Hook
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      The aim of this paper is to describe the use of a discrete, two session large group in an organizational conference setting (of the Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy), which gave insight into unconscious systemic dynamics that affect the organization. In line with a tradition of the use of experiential large group experiences in organizational settings, we illustrate how such a group can be used as a consultative process through bringing forward fresh insights with a compelling emotional intensity and in community building through sharing experiences at a time of stress in mental health services with feelings of increasing isolation. Such insights can aid the organization and its elected officials in leading and developing strategy, whilst community building can lead to collective responsibility-taking and development of collegial relationships which serve to reduce isolation. We clarify different possible functions of the experiential large group in organizational conference settings including consultation regarding systemic dynamics, community building and affective integration of learning.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-03-20T06:48:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231161751
       
  • Mourning becomes us

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      Authors: Margherita Castellani
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      This paper posits that mourning is fundamentally a social process. The inability to mourn has dangerous consequences for the individual and for society. Social support and community networks are necessary in order to tolerate the pain of loss and overcome the resistance through sharing in the group. Based on clinical material from a two-year analytic training group run in an NHS psychotherapy department, the author argues that the developmental and therapeutic process of the group corresponded to the unfolding of the mourning process. The development of the capacity to mourn brought transformation in the group, leading to a more coherent sense of identity, both of individual members and of the group as a whole.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-03-13T12:48:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150765
       
  • Book Review: Lorentzen, Steinar Focused Group Analytic Psychotherapy: An
           Integration of Clinical Experience and Research

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      Authors: Kevin Power
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-03-08T05:41:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231160048
       
  • Giving birth to the unborn: Processing the experience of sibling abortion
           and transgenerational trauma in groups

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      Authors: Ying Liu
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I will present a personal journey of making sense of the experience of sibling abortion under China’s Once-child Policy and transgenerational trauma related to China’s Cultural Revolution in a group analysis training group. The first part of this paper will reflect on and analyse how groups helped me to claim the identity as a mourner, allowed both the presence and absence of my unborn brother to become real, and offered me reparative family relationships when I dealt with my grief. Drawing on the concept of large-group identity and transgenerational transmission, the second part of this paper will explore how experiences in groups enabled me to discover and understand the transgenerational transmission of trauma related to the Cultural Revolution in my family.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-03-08T05:39:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150424
       
  • A narrative review of group analytic literature on clinical supervision:
           Seeking coherence and correspondence

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      Authors: Aisling McMahon
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      A systematic narrative literature review was carried out with the aim of identifying key themes in the group analytic literature on clinical supervision, and to inform the development of theory, practice and research in this area. The systematic literature search identified 103 relevant publications, nearly all involving case vignettes of supervisory practice and theoretical reflections on group analytic supervision, with only a handful of published research studies in this field to date. Four core themes were identified in this literature, indicating what group analysts have considered to be the key functions of clinical supervision—one primary theme: Providing critical holding and containment, and three other themes radiating out from this primary concern: Supporting capacity to bear and process emotionally, sustaining ability to think deeply and widely, and counteracting isolation and enabling creative exchange. The nature of each of these themes is elaborated, and this material is critically considered in terms of the group analytic contribution to the clinical supervision field (considering theoretical coherence) and its relationship with the wider literature on supervision (considering correspondence with other disciplines). In conclusion, some implications and recommendations are outlined.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-27T11:32:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231153927
       
  • Understanding female survivors of interpersonal trauma and their
           experience of the ‘Survive & Thrive’ course

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      Authors: Lucie Jackson, Kevin Power, Katy Mitchell, Kate Duncan, Linda Graham, Kathryn Wilson
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      The majority of publications have concentrated on individual psychological interventions with a limited focus on manualized group-based approaches for those presenting with mental health difficulties following a history of trauma. Survive & Thrive (S&T) is a psychoeducational course designed for survivors of interpersonal trauma which utilizes cognitive behavioural skills training while delivering psychoeducation on how a history of victimization can impact on the survivors’ life. This qualitative study was designed to gain an insight into female survivors of interpersonal trauma experience of S&T and the associated group dynamics component to evaluate this psychological intervention. The participants described their experience of S&T as a journey towards recovery. The study highlights the benefits of group-based interventions in regard to learning experience within a social context whilst also identifying areas for further development based on the participants’ feedback.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-25T11:18:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150408
       
  • ‘Could it be that, after all is said and done, we are Oedipus and the
           group of the Sphinx'’: Learning from Foulkes

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      Authors: Volker Haude
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      S.H. Foulkes’s paper concerning the Oedipus situation—published some 40 years ago—is still relevant in current group analytic practice. Main phrases of the Foulkes article, such as ‘regression’, ‘infantile sexuality’, ‘Oedipus conflict’, the ‘Sphinx-like mother’ and ‘transference’ are examined. Based on a case report about sexual pairing in group psychotherapy, the author depicts the course of events before analysing the enactment of the protagonists, the role of the group, somatic sufferings during the group process, boundary violations and countertransference factors, and discusses diagnostic and therapeutic implications as well as the need for further research on the special topic in group analytic psychotherapy.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-22T10:39:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231152440
       
  • The experience of theft of the firstborn’s rights as echoed in
           individual and group analysis

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      Authors: Smadar Ashuach
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      The theft of the firstborn’s birth right by a sibling is relived and re-enacted in individual and group analysis. This experience can be interpreted as a continuation of Juliet Mitchell’s theory of sibling trauma and the law of the mother, as expressed in several Bible stories and demonstrated here by clinical examples.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-15T12:50:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231152429
       
  • Learning about humour

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      Authors: Susanne Vosmer
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      In groups, we encounter the entire spectrum of humour from benign jokes to hostile sarcasm. Since humour has been neglected by group analysts, this article expands the limited literature in group analysis on humour. Several theories of humour are introduced. I contend that group analysis should research humour in order to develop a group analytic theory of humour. Jokes and clinical examples are interwoven to illustrate what conductors must consider before employing humour. Reactions to and use of witticism are described. Beneficial humour techniques (therapeutic paradox, paradoxical intentions) and gallows humour are outlined. Gallows humour has therapeutic benefits for depressed, traumatized, suicidal and dying people. Vignettes are provided that demonstrate how parallel process offers insight into humour. I suggest that supervision and workshops are vital if group analysts wish to use humour. Some techniques are described, which could be taught.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-15T12:48:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150211
       
  • Book Review: Ashuach, Smadar and Berman, Avi (eds) Sibling Relations and
           the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis,
           Psychoanalysis and Organizational Consultancy (New International Library
           of Group Analysis)

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      Authors: Val Parker
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-10T09:29:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221147779
       
  • Book Review: Why group therapy works and how to do it: a guide for health
           and social care professionals. New International Library of Group Analysis
           

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      Authors: Gerda Winther
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-01-11T11:34:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221141878
       
  • Book Review: Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and
           Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organizational
           Consultancy (New International Library of Group Analysis)

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      Authors: Amélie Noack
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-01-11T08:32:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221142118
       
  • Book Review: Asleep on the Volcano: The Poetic Landscape of Psychotherapy

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      Authors: Mike Tait
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-01-11T08:26:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221141882
       
  • Psychotherapy: A kind of clinical philosophy'

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      Authors: Farhad Dalal
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      I will speak up for philosophy as a deep, questioning attitude and a form of critical thinking. I will argue that the development of this kind of attitude is not only necessary to the therapeutic endeavour, it is identical to it. The work of developing this attitude requires courage not only from the ones-who-come-for-help, but also the ones-who-try-to-help. Amongst other things, I will contest the idea of psychotherapy as ‘treatment’ that seeks to ‘cure’ ‘mental illnesses’. I will say something about how this way of thinking tries to inform the ethos of the group analytic programme in Bengaluru, India. I will draw on my understanding of ‘Eastern’ philosophies, and contrast them with my evolving philosophy of psychotherapy. In this task I will call on a range of philosophers from Wittgenstein to Hume, Mead, Gaita, Keats, Weil, and de Beauvoir.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-01-04T11:56:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221143454
       
  • Expression of different kinds of love and their transformation in the
           interpretative encounter in the group

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      Authors: Susanne Vosmer
      First page: 28
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      Gadamerian concepts are combined with historic and group analytic conceptualizations to understand and modify expressions of different kinds of love in a long-term group. Vignettes are presented. In the interpretative encounter, affective, empathic, cultural and other resonances emerged. Through dialogue, new understanding occurred in the group about dangerous, romantic, unhealthy, narcissistic, intoxicating, unrequited, ecclesial and sexual love, which are influenced by prejudices/prejudgments, language, ideologies, tradition and (historic) horizons. Group love developed. My own positionality contributed to this process. A fusion of horizons was not always possible. Nevertheless, new understanding of sexualities, prostitution, marriage and romantic relationships was achieved in the group. I have introduced a rudimentary hermeneutic framework, which shows how prejudgments and faulty/ negative resonances of love can be modified or transformed. However, this circle is continuously ‘effected by historic un/consciousness’ and therefore never complete.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-01T11:34:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221144906
       
  • Matter arising from the responses of Claire Bacha and Farhad Dalal to each
           other over the latter’s paper entitled ‘The ethics of supervision’

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      Authors: Kevin Power
      First page: 100
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-23T07:22:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231156740
       
  • Book Review: Nitsun, Morris A Psychotherapist Paints: Insights form the
           Border of Art and Psychotherapy (New International Library of Group
           Analysis)

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      Authors: Martin Weegmann
      First page: 103
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-22T10:12:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150153
       
  • Book Review: Nitsun, Morris A. Psychotherapist Paints: Insights from the
           Border of Art and Psychotherapy

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      Authors: Marcus Price
      First page: 107
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-08T01:11:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150216
       
  • Book Review: Art Psychotherapy Groups in The Hostile Environment of
           Neoliberalism: Collusion or Resistance'

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      Authors: Teresa von Sommaruga Howard
      First page: 125
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T06:55:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221143622
       
  • Book Review: Gans, Jerome S Addressing Challenging Moments in
           Psychotherapy: Clinical Wisdom for Working with Individuals, Groups, and
           Couples

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      Authors: Maria Puschbeck-Raetzell
      First page: 131
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-01-23T07:06:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221145381
       
  • Morris Nitsun 1943–2022

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      Authors: Sue Einhorn
      First page: 142
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-17T11:19:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231154849
       
  • Morris Nitsun 1943–2022

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      Authors: Stuart Stevenson
      First page: 146
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-01-21T07:09:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221145416
       
  • Morris Nitsun 1943–2022

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      Authors: Maddy Loat
      First page: 150
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-02-01T07:07:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221150154
       
  • Ronald Morris Nitsun 1943–2022

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      Authors: John Schlapobersky
      First page: 154
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2023-03-16T05:00:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164231161502
       
  • Book Review: Women, Intersectionality and Power in Group Psychotherapy
           Leadership

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      Authors: Erica Burman
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-11-25T10:46:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221136409
       
  • Book Review: Leadership, Psychoanalysis, and Society

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      Authors: Gerhard Wilke
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-11-23T08:31:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221136412
       
  • Book Review: Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse: A
           Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals

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      Authors: Angela Sordano
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-11-16T08:47:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221136070
       
  • 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

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      Authors: Carla Penna
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      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.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-09-22T08:25:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221100915
       
  • Edward Glover, John Bowlby, psychiatry, Bion, and the War Office Selection
           Boards—towards a context for the emergence of group analysis

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      Authors: Christine Vickers
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      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.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-09-21T08:53:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221100329
       
  • Lived experiences of diversity in group analytic training and as a
           qualified group analyst: an autoethnographic study

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      Authors: Susanne Vosmer
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      My evocative and analytical autoethnography explored the lived experience of diversity during group analytic training and as group analyst. Bakhtin’s dialogism was used to analyse texts. Data analysis has revealed pervasive experiences of racism and discomfort about social class and gender disparity. Religion was not included in my training and achieving feminine autonomy was difficult in group analysis. Linked to patriarchy, colonialism, and perhaps the Holocaust, my analysis suggests that we need to rethink gender and religious certainties. Our morality leaves much to be desired when we do not embrace polyphony, diverse voices. Embracing diversity may also entail discarding the Oedipus Complex. Group analytic training institutes should consider different fee structures so that disadvantaged people can join our elitist circle.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-05-26T05:17:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221083807
       
  • The impact of homophobic trauma on gay men

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      Authors: Stuart Stevenson
      First page: 3
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      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.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-09-15T11:33:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221121057
       
  • Response to Stuart Stevenson’s paper — ‘The impact of homophobic
           trauma on gay men’

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      Authors: Morris Nitsun
      First page: 81
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-11-23T08:30:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221136068
       
  • Simply ‘Yes’. Response to Stuart Stevenson: ‘The impact of
           homophobic trauma on gay men’

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      Authors: Claire Bacha
      First page: 85
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.
      Stuart Stevenson has vividly described the way in which being left alone with homosexuality in a homophobic world as a child creates a specific and lasting trauma. Stevenson captured a specific kind of trauma. However, group responses to his generous insights show that something important also happens to recipients of his insights. In groups, people listening want to identify with him and to join him to a point of drowning him out. These acts of joining, ‘me too’, ‘yes, butting’ and ‘whataboutery’ show that it is deeply uncomfortable to hear someone else’s painful experiences, take them in and not respond immediately. A group discussion at the Group Analysis North Barbara Dick Lecture where Stevenson presented his paper came to the clear conclusion that the best response to hearing painful experiences is simply ‘Yes’. Simply listening to the story of the ‘other’ opens up a painful place that is also enriching and empowering. This is the nature of intersectionality.
      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-11-25T11:36:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221136094
       
  • Au contraire . . . A reply to Claire Bacha’s response to ‘The ethics
           of supervision’

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      Authors: Farhad Dalal
      First page: 96
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-02-05T07:05:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221077173
       
  • Book Review: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in
           Palestine

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      Authors: Sue Einhorn
      First page: 110
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-05-19T06:20:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221095006
       
  • Book Review: The Portuguese School of Group Analysis. Towards a Unified
           and Integrated Approach to Theory Research and Clinical Work

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      Authors: Carla Penna
      First page: 114
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-09-08T06:15:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221118467
       
  • Book Review: Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive
           Populism in Perilous Times

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      Authors: Victor L. Schermer
      First page: 120
      Abstract: Group Analysis, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Group Analysis
      PubDate: 2022-10-21T07:20:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/05333164221130463
       
 
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