Pub Date : 2023-01-22DOI: 10.1177/05333164221145381
Maria Puschbeck-Raetzell
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.1177/05333164221145416
S. Stevenson
I have had the privilege of being a supervisee of Morris for the last eight years. This period included my training as a group analyst. In common with Morris, I have a particular commitment to working with marginalized communities, understanding the complexities of the sexual realm, as well as, the impact of structural and systemic oppression. Morris supported and encouraged me in building theory and developing concepts about homophobic trauma, including the devasting impact this has on many gay men during their childhood and adolescence, and the psychotherapeutic needs of gay men consequently. Morris was pivotal in assisting me to develop a working definition of homophobia and how it impacts on the psychological development of gay men at various points during their earlier life stages. We discussed the presentation of gay men in our clinics and practices in terms of their psychological difficulties and felt that many of their issues can be attributed, largely, to the impact of homophobic trauma rather than anything that is innate. This is largely due to gay men having to manage a wide range of traumatizing negative responses from very young ages, including the betrayal by their families and communities. This betrayal ranges from ostracism to extreme violence and rejection from those who are meant to care about 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. I always found Morris supportive, firm and kind. His wisdom and ability to mentor was greatly valued as was his insight into my 1145416 GAQ0010.1177/05333164221145416Group AnalysisStevenson: Morris Nitsun obituary research-article2023
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1177/05333164221141882
Mike Tait
Reading Asleep on the Volcano: The Poetic Landscape of Psychotherapy by Marcus Price is more like entering an experience than reading a text. The paintings and poems are likely to evoke disquiet in the reader looking for satisfying works of art or clear guidelines and theories in relation to working in a forensic setting. Instead we are invited into a digestive process. At first we find ourselves visiting the ‘poetic landscape’ of the author’s younger self . . .
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1177/05333164221141878
G. Winther
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1177/05333164221142118
Amélie Noack
The weaving together and unravelling of meaning in a group, also stems from Foulkes, they say, and the alternate states of being of the tree and the rhizome should be available options for every group conductor in their work. Following this, Dudai takes us to the cinema to analyse the relations of two brothers to each other and to their father in the film ‘The Return’. The start refers back to the Bible and the respective relationships between brothers and fathers and sons. The intersection of the vertical and the horizontal axes are assessed and they explore how this has been represented in the film. Rapoport and Piper, in the final chapter in the book, offer an assessment of the power relations between patient and analyst in psy- choanalysis and point to the underlying conditioning through capitalism. This chapter also makes reference to Guattari and Deleuze, addressing the contradiction found in any therapeutic endeavour, that the process aims at liberating the patient, while keep-ing them blocked from reinvesting in the social field. This contribution is by two authors, who are not group analysts and may not necessarily be familiar with the importance of the social in group analysis. They highlight the contradictions that are part of the monetary exchange between patient and therapist, pointing to capitalist structures as a limit to the possibility of horizontal relating in analysis. On the whole, I found it interesting how frequently references to the Bible, like the story of Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph and his brothers and so on, featured in the texts. These examples were often used to illustrate each of the author’s perspec-tive of the vertical or horizontal axis. The law of mother and the violation of it, as well as the law of the father, are used in a variety of contexts by the authors and are often interpreted differently by the different contributors to the book.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1177/05333164221143454
Farhad Dalal
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.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/05333164221135170
D. Nitzgen
Due to this the dancers and the choreographer became able to bring together "two differentiated realities into contact with one another", namely their feelings of isolation I and i of being unitedly exercising in front of a screen, watched by the choreographer, which Vollon and Gimenez understood as "a common cathexis of the group's psychic envelope" according to [2]. In dance companies, they argue, the dancers are traditionally considered as interpreters and/ or performers "whilst it is the choreographer who is in the role of the creator". Regarding its consequences, Vollon and Gimenez hypothesize that the preventive public health measures with regard to Covid19 could be thought of a "potential shared trauma" as it led to a "collapse of metapsychic and metasocial guarantors". However, Vollon and Gimenez widen Anzieu's psychoanalytical focus, pointing out that 'surprisingly, there is very little literature on regression and the creative dissociation of the Ego and on the modes by which group creativity is organized'. [Extracted from the article]
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/05333164221131768
Farideh Dizadji
Hello everyone, Thank you, Regine, for inviting me to be one of the respondents to your thought-provoking lecture: When foundation matrices move— challenges for a group analysis of our time (Scholz, 2022). Despite our passing each other, occasionally, at various GASI events for many years, we have been unknown to each other. Regine, unlike you, I have also been unknown to the GASI community at large, as a group analyst, as a psychotherapist, as an organizational consultant, a colleague and as one of its members. In this context, I felt some confusion and surprise when I received the invitation. I wondered, why have I been invited to this space? And why now? And do I belong here? What, if anything, am I supposed to be a representative of? How am I perceived by others and myself and whether there are differences between these two perceptions? How do I understand the issues raised in your lecture, Regine? How can I be authentic on this platform? And finally, why did I accept this invitation, despite my ambivalences? My contribution to today’s Study Day is an attempt to reflect upon these questions as they relate to some of the issues raised in your lecture, Regine, in particular from my position of ‘the Other’, 1131768 GAQ0010.1177/05333164221131768Group Analysis 55(4)Dizadji: Response research-article2022
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1177/05333164221143970
J. Tubert-Oklander
Most of the articles published in our Journal stem from the Foulkesian British group-analytic tradition, although some of us have striven to introduce the Latin American tradition initiated by Enrique PichonRivière (Tubert-Oklander and Hernández de Tubert, 2004). This is quite understandable, since Group Analysis is an organ of the GroupAnalytic Society International, but until quite recently there has been a paucity of contributions from the work and thought of our French colleagues, with the notable exception of the present writers. Communication between the various traditions of analytic work with groups is much needed for all of us, but it is also a quite difficult enterprise on account of our different national and institutional traditions, perspectives, languages, theories, and practices. Vollon and Gimenez (2022) have already striven to build bridges between our respective theoretical concepts (Tubert-Oklander, 2022). The present text not only deepens their effort, but it also provides us with a novel and thought-provoking experience and research. This is an excellent article, well written and highly interesting. Its theoretical perspective is clearly more psychoanalytical than groupanalytical, in accordance with Didier Anzieu’s and René Kaës’s conception of the ‘psychoanalytic work with groups’. However the 1143970 GAQ0010.1177/05333164221143970Group Analysis 55(4)Tubert-Oklander: Response to Vollon and Gimenez article-commentary2022
发表在我们杂志上的大多数文章都源于福克斯式的英国群体分析传统，尽管我们中的一些人努力引入由恩里克·皮孔·里维尔发起的拉丁美洲传统(Tubert- oklander和Hernández de Tubert, 2004)。这是完全可以理解的，因为群体分析是国际群体分析协会的一个机构，但直到最近，我们法国同事的工作和思想的贡献很少，除了目前的作者之外。我们所有人都非常需要在群体分析工作的各种传统之间进行交流，但由于我们不同的国家和制度传统、观点、语言、理论和实践，这也是一项相当困难的事业。Vollon和Gimenez(2022)已经努力在我们各自的理论概念之间建立桥梁(Tubert-Oklander, 2022)。本文不仅深化了他们的努力，而且为我们提供了一个新颖而发人深省的经验和研究。这是一篇优秀的文章，写得很好，非常有趣。根据Didier Anzieu和ren Kaës关于“群体精神分析工作”的概念，它的理论观点显然更像是精神分析而不是群体分析。然而，1143970 GAQ0010.1177/05333164221143970Group Analysis 55(4)Tubert-Oklander: Response to Vollon and Gimenez article-commentary2022
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