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In this presentation I describe the positions of this issue alternating between the crisis areas of psychiatry and the resources of groups in their various forms, without forgetting to look at the social and clinical Read more
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In this presentation I briefly tell the story of this volume and the problems encountered, to describe the difficult situation that the group psychodynamic therapy with children is living, in our country and in Europe, due to multiple factors related to the social and cultural crisis that we are facing.
Group dimensions in an Adult Mental Health Inpatient Unit
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Human beings are immersed in group settings of one kind or another all life long and even when individual mental suffering exacerbates to the point of needing hospitalization, people find themselves sharing space, time and emotions with others. A mental health crisis breaks the individual and family balance and expresses itself with acute and extreme thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Psychiatric hospitalization, although traumatic, gives the patient and his/her relatives an opportunity of living all the alterations in a protected environment also offering them an explanation for these alterations. Clinicians aim to intervene as soon as possible after the onset of a crisis in order to enable the individual to overcome it and to return to normal functioning, Read more
The Group – Bridge: The experience of a therapeutic group between institutional and social crisis, and group crisis in Greece
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The work traces the link between social crisis and the management of clinical crises in the therapeutic group of Read more
Why psychoanalysis in times of poverty?
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The psychoanalytical group is characterized by a self-representative work and what happens within it, is considered as an useful material for putting in meaning the same group. Thoughts, affections, somatic expressions, sounds, noises, etc. tend to form a multi-dimensional tissue called with a good term, by Francesco Corrao (1979), <<self-interpreting context>>.
By this way the group can be operationally defined by the setting which establishes its limits but it is at the same time, in a dynamic relation with the reality’s levels in which it is immerged.
I try of placing with this article, some founding moments of Bion’s model which came from his experiences, in the way of highlighting, referring to the case of groups applied within institutional contexts, the importance since the origins, of a field’s perspective in which the clinic practice will never be a technical operation extracted from the institution but an integral part of it.
In a “ill” institution it is highly improbable that “healthy” groups can born and develop. The function of psychoanalysts during times characterized by a deep crisis of the human being, is the same of the poets in the Hölderlin’s poem which gives the title to this work: in other words the duty of de-objectifying reality from its de-symbolizing dimensions, bearing the darkness and the Read more