Further Thoughts on Group-Analytic Training

Abstract

The author reproaches Group-analytic training for not paying enough attention to the intrusion of ideological (psychoanalytic) elements into the Group-analytic approach. He considers block training to be an offshoot of the method-demonstration conference and therefore bound to adopt a particularly authoritarian structure, function and content. Reference is made to other issues of Group-analytic training and practice (the concept of the `person', the presence of patients and so on) in order to underline the difference and contradictions between group analysis and psychoanalysis. Training community practice within a Group-analytic training organization could remedy some of the problems.

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block training group analysis Group-analytic training mixed therapy groups psychoanalysis

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