Articoli che contengono il tag: Children
Reality and fiction for the therapeutic couple
Abstract The necessity to have a precise time and a limited place where the group processes could take place, is a fundamental requirement for the survival of the group. This is to say that a stable setting with clear limited … Continua a leggere
From the top to words: conduction and transformation in a therapeutic group of children
Abstract In my experience with groups of children (beginning age 4-5 years old, children with an intellective level in the average and with development blocks more or less important: sometimes I also included a child with a psychotic personality structure) … Continua a leggere
The Problem Solving Function of Dreams in Children’s Groups
Abstract In this paper I will be referring to two dreams. The first dream was told by a little girl aged ten and a half, in a group that has been going for three years now, and is held in … Continua a leggere
The therapist, an adult seeking his place in the group
Abstract This article describes the role of the therapist within groups of children, highlighting the natural tendency of recent research and aggregation of peer relationships. The creative potential that arises from this type of relationship proves a useful tool for … Continua a leggere
The adult and the therapist in an adolescents group: new object and transferential object
Abstract The psychology of groups and certain structural dynamic elements of their functioning are common to all groups. However, there are some variables that change according to the emotional needs and developmental tasks connected to the age of the individuals … Continua a leggere
The adult and transformations in the group with children: from chaos to the game
Abstract The paper discusses the specific elements of clinical work with children in groups: some of these elements are meeting with the chaos, with the primitive emotions and the bodily involvement. Go through and deal with the analytical model these … Continua a leggere
Parents and therapists as co-authors of children’s mental health in the Gin-Gap groupal technique
Abstract For its members the family is a mixture of both health and illness and children are the carriers of this either at a manifest or at a latent level. In this paper we are going to resume one of … Continua a leggere
Adult therapist in the adolescents group
Abstract The therapist’s function in a group of adolescents can’t be kept out of consideration from one’s own mental disposition, experience, cultural references and from one’s own adolescence. The teen-agers themselves are able to recognize the leader’s psychological profile and … Continua a leggere
The first session of a children’s group
Abstract Seven children are sitting around the table in silence, there are four boys and three girls aged between nine and ten years old. Every now and then they give each other a stealthy glance and carefully observe the small … Continua a leggere
The presence of the adult in the groups of children and adolescents: the specificity and the differences
Abstract The relationship between adult and children or adolescents in therapeutic groups is the central theme of this paper which highlights the different modes of perception of the adult therapist by children or adolescents in the group. Several considerations about … Continua a leggere
Bion in the nursery. The Three steps of an intersubjective theory
Abstract The author analyses Bion’s works evolution in regard to the relation between intersubjectivity and symbolization. Three books mark this evolution: Experiences in groups, Learning from experience and Attention and Interpretation. Firstly intersubjectivity is the field of symbolisation, secondly the … Continua a leggere
