Within the framework of research on the cultural foundation of the person and of identity, experiences in two intercultural Group-analytic workshops, are described and analysed. The setting of these workshops produced crises in the cultural envelope of the participants. Through the individual and group processes it was possible to analyse nonindividuated zones of the Self, traumas in the primary family group and the impact of historical traumatic events. In the transitional space elaborated during the workshop, participants were able to work on these cultural dimensions of the Self in a perspective of enquiry and personal change.
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