Pub Date : 2024-01-05DOI: 10.1177/05333164231218146
Elisabeth Rohr, Renate Cogoy
More than 40 years ago, the first training group of the Institute of Group Analysis Heidelberg started their training with Ilse Seglow in London. However, the beginning of the training was overshadowed by a conflict, since the group did not know that the training should take place entirely in London. This paper tries to explore this conflict in the light of unconscious dynamics underlying the foundation of the institute. Ilse Seglow, a German exiled Jew and ex-communist, was the ‘spiritus rector’ of the institute and the facilitator of the first training group. Group processes are described, showing how the group as well as Ilse dealt with this situation, commemorating one of the charismatic, controversial and politically inspired, but mostly forgotten personalities of the group analytic community.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1177/05333164231218151
Sue Einhorn
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Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1177/05333164231212866
Isobel Conlon
{"title":"Claire Bacha August 1945 to May 2023","authors":"Isobel Conlon","doi":"10.1177/05333164231212866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231212866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138606863","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}
Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/05333164231208091
Ivan Urlić
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Pub Date : 2023-11-15DOI: 10.1177/05333164231207821
Joanna Skowronska
‘Facts matter’, stated Miriam Berger in her Foulkes Lecture (Berger, 2023). They matter because, in the human world, they happen to somebody. So if they do not matter, somebody does not matter. I postulate that witnessing, as it is defined by Miriam Berger, is a group-specific factor whose value lies in allowing the emergence of ‘moments of meetings’—moments in psychotherapy changing the intersubjective architecture of the relation. The capacity to validate somebody’s experience seems to be more crucial nowadays when disregarding facts and truth has reached such an extent that it has a name: the ‘post-truth’ era. But, ‘witnessing is not a given’, says Miriam Berger. Whether this emergent property of the group will be used for ‘re-humanization in therapy and beyond’ (Berger, 2023) depends on how the conductor handles the facts: Do they matter to her/him or not? I will also reflect on what shapes the attitude of the conductors toward the facts.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1177/05333164231207936
Miriam Berger
In this paper I argue that witnessing and horizontality are both essential factors in the process of healing the injuries induced by manmade violence. Bearing witness represents the acknowledgement that harm has been done, that it needs to be accounted for and healed. Horizontality directs our concerted look into what transpires between people in the lived present. I suggest that the convergence between witnessing and horizontality renders a view into the multi-dimensional reciprocal interactions which human interdependence is made of. This view into the lived interactive process that unfolds between members of the analytic group, can unravel the relational consequences of traumatic experiences. It enables them to become active participants in each other’s healing and hence crucial in recovering their faith in a social reality of mutual concern. I shall situate these reflections in my experiences personally and professionally.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1177/05333164231207798
Val Parker
Miriam Berger’s fascinating and poignant lecture has drawn attention to a very important area of relating—the act of bearing witness. As she points out, witnessing belongs in the horizontal axis, and it begins in the sibling matrix. In my response I will consider the importance of sibling witnessing in the family and its function in both individual and group therapy, illustrating this with a powerful example of sibling witnessing in my weekly therapy group.
{"title":"Sibling witnessing in the horizontal axis. Response to 46th Foulkes Lecture by Miriam Berger: May 2023","authors":"Val Parker","doi":"10.1177/05333164231207798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231207798","url":null,"abstract":"Miriam Berger’s fascinating and poignant lecture has drawn attention to a very important area of relating—the act of bearing witness. As she points out, witnessing belongs in the horizontal axis, and it begins in the sibling matrix. In my response I will consider the importance of sibling witnessing in the family and its function in both individual and group therapy, illustrating this with a powerful example of sibling witnessing in my weekly therapy group.","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"25 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135680912","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}
Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1177/05333164231197974
Dick Blackwell
Decolonizing is not a finite process with a beginning and an end, though there are signs that it is being taken up in that way. It is therefore in danger of being fetishised and incorporated into the very colonial system it sets out to call into question. It is instead an ongoing dialogue, a praxis involving both colonizers and decolonizers. And it is an internal struggle for decolonizers with the colonizing and colonized parts of ourselves. It calls into question all established theories and discourses of group analysis and of Western psychotherapy generally, embedded as they are in Western philosophical traditions and forms of ‘knowledge’. It supports the empowerment of subaltern voices addressing the unity of patriarchy, racism and class exploitation wherever they occur.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-28DOI: 10.1177/05333164231197975
Mario Marrone
{"title":"Book Review: Group Analysis Throughout the Life Cycle: Foulkes Revisited from a Group Attachment and Developmental Perspective","authors":"Mario Marrone","doi":"10.1177/05333164231197975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164231197975","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166668,"journal":{"name":"Group Analysis","volume":"275 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136232834","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}
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