Abstract
Abstract
Foulkes insisted that human beings are constituted through, and by, relationships from the first. Over recent years, corroborating evidence for this insight has been accumulating in a surprising variety of disciplines which include physics, biology, sociology, mathematics, complexity and economics. It turns out that the insight was more profound than Foulkes himself realized – that the nature of existence itself is relational. These insights have a considerable bearing on how we think about our work as group analysts.
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