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The group activities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Services

1 January 1970/in Alessandra Marzano, Giuseppe Ducci, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

Abstract

In all the western countries has established the model of community psychiatry. In this model, the aims of the wards for acute pathologies (Psychiatric Emergency Ser-vices) are slowly passed from the historical ones, of the control of agitation, anger and despair, with the limitation of the most disturbing expressions on the social level, taking no notice of diagnosis and evaluation of the causes of the crisis, to the most modern ones, which measure the quality and success of a inpatient acute psychiatric ward not on the number of patients seen and stabilized, but instead entrusted with success in long-term therapy project.
In this perspective, the group activity within the Italian Diagnosis and Treatment Psychiatric Services (SPDC, the inpatient acute psychiatric ward of the NHS) takes a significant value, both for the management of the emotional atmosphere inside the ward, that for the development or the reinforcement of those social cognition skills that will be, at discharge, decisive for the recovery of adequate cognitive skills.
The article is the exact transcription of the lesson happened in 2012 within the course of Theory and Practice of the Intervention in Groups, at the Faculty Read more

Dreams and serious pathologies in the group: the Potential of the Dimension of Dreaming in the Group when Dreaming is not possible

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, Luisa de Bellis/by @dmin

Abstract

“The group that there isn’t ” means is that from time to time with the participation of patients in that day, and also that the dismissal of someone or the entry of new patients constantly changes the composition of the group. Presence of a new group for each session, in addition to clearly delimit the ability of the individual and the group to operate significant changes introduced into the room a special quality of time: a time without history, which narrowed and simultaneously accelerated, often beyond Read more

Genius Loci: The Spirit of a Place, the Spirit of a Group

1 January 1970/in Claudio Neri, Individual Group and Nature/by @dmin

Abstract

The author divided the discussion is divided in three parts. The first, which is very synthetic, will cover some of Bion’s theories as regards “Work Group Mentality”, “Basic Assumptions Group Mentality”, and their respective leaders. In the second he introduced J. Bleger’s “Syncretic Sociality” concept, which introduces a third type of “Group Mentality” different from the one developed by Bion’s theory. The third part, which is the longest, is dedicated to the role of the Genius Loci. The Genius Loci is not a leader, like the Work Group mentality leader or the basic assumptions group mentality leader. However, it performs some important functions for the social and mental life of a Read more

Repetition in time and microtransformations Ten years’ work with a group of anorexic and bulimic patients

1 January 1970/in Group with anorexic patients therapeutic factors, Ronny Jaffè/by @dmin

Abstract

I consider these years of working with anorexic and bulimic groups above all, have allowed me to be in contact with the repetitions among patients, and have also allowed me to re-examine many of the clinical and theoretical processes; depending on whether I have utilized them in an integral form or mixed them in an unconfused manner, have permitted me to get away from rigid chains enabling me to get closer to the enigmatic world of Read more

There and back. Migrants’ dreams and myths

1 January 1970/in Mith Dream and Group, Rossella Del Guerra/by @dmin

Abstract

Such extreme crystallization of defensive experiences can be frequently observed in homogeneous communities or groups of emigrants of equal origin, too closed in themselves, anchored to surpassed habits, rituals, traditions and ideologies, clearly detached both from the reality of the place which hosts them (rejected because alien) and from the reality of the country they have left, since they maintain themselves still in time without ever evolving or transforming. The homecoming ideal thus looses its dreaming and Read more

Group dreams as fractal images

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, Marco Zanasi/by @dmin

Abstract

In fractal geometry, a fractal is an object with a complex branched structure subtly, gradually enlarging a portion of the structure are out details that remain the same at all scales of growth. fractals are not expressed by primary forms, but by algorithms. In this sense, the analytic group can be considered, using the theory of chaos, as the analogue of a fractal. The analytic group is the meeting point, the scene where you are replicating primordial collective dynamics and dynamics very personal, the group is the focal Read more

Why psychoanalysis in times of poverty?

1 January 1970/in Alessandro Americo, The different applications of the group device, within clinical, social and organizational institutions/by @dmin

Abstract

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

Dreams in a group session: telling a dream as an instrument to develope one’ s own individuality

1 January 1970/in A.M. Celli, Dream and Group two/by @dmin

Abstract

In this paper some reflections will be formulated about a possible use of the dream as a useful tool to understand and have a view on the state of individual mind, related to group work, in a brief number of sessions of a psychotherapic group, managed in a Psichiatric Public Clinic. Then the process of telling dreams within a group, seems to bring meaningful traces of such an immersion in the inter-subjective plot, which I consider our original condition of being in the world as humans. Within a group, such a plot is alive and present, can be seen, listened, and this experience facilitates a possibility to gather access to personal, remote memories, and touching such ancient roos seems to allow a significant Read more

A Sense of Place: Matters of space, mind and personhood

1 January 1970/in Chris Loynes, Individual Group and Nature/by @dmin

Abstract

The article emphasizes the importance of the place, which acquires profound significance in the mind of the group, influencing moods and emotions. The space itself, and ‘neutral, while the place and’ a cultural landscape on which are projected and constructed meanings. The trainers, through experience, using the effects of nature on the body and mind, and outdoor Read more

Bulimic images. Interpersonal rereading of a dynamic of a Photolangage© group

1 January 1970/in Group with anorexic patients therapeutic factors, Luciano Gheri, Nicoletta Calenzo/by @dmin

Abstract

The Photolangage revealed to be an instrument able to stimulate a dialogue among people closed up in the silence of their own experience.Preceding studies and clinical experiences demonstrated its strength in providing a container for the emotions emerging in group paths.This important feature of it permitted us to use the instrument respecting its own rules, experiencing a “new pair of glasses” to read its dynamics: the psychoanalytic interpersonal pattern. Listening to the world of images means listening to elementary sensations they cause “in the here and now” giving voice to the contents of one’s own experience. The photo images and the following comments are, for us interpersonalists, the metaphor of the relation which works between the therapist (parental figure) and the group participants (children). The therapist plays the role which is attributed to him/her in the participants’ phantasies , but recording what is said about the images Read more

The sheaves. A dream recounted in Group. (From “The Young Joseph” by Thomas Mann. From “Genesis”, Chapter 37, Verses 1-32)

1 January 1970/in Giovanna Goretti Regazzoni, Mith Dream and Group/by @dmin

Abstract

The biblical story of Joseph, intertwined with “the young Joseph” by Thomas Mann and analytical affairs of a patient illustrating the vicissitudes of narcissistic object links within the pervasive and influenced, of Read more

Introduction

1 January 1970/in Mario Giampà, Truth and evolution in O in Bion s work/by @dmin

Abstract

In this introduction, after a brief account of the advantages and application areas of group psychotherapy as a method of intervention in developmental age, they are briefly summarized all the articles that make up the volume. In this way, it is given an overview of the content, following a Read more

Traumatic representations associated with separation. Acting as dreams that can not be dreamed

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, Luisella Zerbi Schwartz/by @dmin

Abstract

The presentation deals with the reactions to the absence of a therapist. The re-enactment, triggered by the absence of a therapist, provokes an automatic response of hyper-arousal that deprives the patients of the ability to modulate and control anxiety and aggression. This enhances the probability of acting-out. An acting can be regarded as a reactive action disconnected from its emotional symbolic meaning, as a dream that can not be dreamed, a coded message of unbearable painful mental content Read more

Psycho-Dynamism of dramisation in groups

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, Marcos Bernard/by @dmin

Abstract

The author relates the dream to a production typical of the group, the dramatic representation and tries to show the similarities and differences between the two. The author takes into consideration the thought of Anzieu (1963), who pointed out the equivalence between the small group and the dream. A group would be, in a sense, a dream dreamed by various dreamy. If we give the dream a function beyond that of satisfaction of desires processing, its reflection can get even closer comparison of the dream with the actions of a small group of psychoanalysts. The author suggests that dreams, in a group, have one of the main functions in this formalization: its function is to provide models of work and thought the group, as well as matrices for identifying its components. Spaces in which to adapt, or with whom you can establish oppositions. The dreams performing among other functions, to mediate between the production of an individual and the group. Allow it to develop models of reflection and action that can go from one form to the next myth, relatively polysemous Read more

Discovering Time and Place

1 January 1970/in Individual Group and Nature, James Telfer/by @dmin

Abstract

The importance of place and displacement, represented in the mind as a clinical problem, is emphasized in this article. The movement takes on a double meaning, on the one hand that of metonymy, the other of spatial dislocation. The place and ‘built-in sense of self as an element of identity formation’. The attachment theory describes the union with the body of the mother Read more

Rethiking group therapy for anorexic patients

1 January 1970/in Barbara Pearlman, Group with anorexic patients therapeutic factors/by @dmin

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to working with groups of anorexic patients via decoding of primitive concrete Read more

Supervision of institutional groups: myths and dreams

1 January 1970/in Antonino Brignone, Cono Aldo Barnà, Mith Dream and Group/by @dmin

Abstract

Just as the vertice of the dreamer is not the same as the one the dreamer finds himself in when he wakes up, and the vertice of the artist is not that of the interpreter of the work of art, in the same way the vertice of associations is not the same as the vertice of the psychoanalyst carrying out interpretations and the vertice of the creator of the myth is not the same as the one of the person who attempts to reformulate it, contributing to the transformations that occur in the course of institutional supervision. Viewed in this light, institutional myths become elements for the understanding of the basic functioning of the service. And if a non-rigid myth presents itself in the course of supervision, this helps professionals and the group to treat their patients. However, the discovery of a rigid myth can also sometimes give the supervisor an opportunity to make it interpretable, thereby offering it up to the understanding of the group, in an attempt to unblock it Read more

Identification Processes in Group Organisation

1 January 1970/in Haydée Popper-Gurassa, Play bond and change in Psychodynamic Group Therapy for Children/by @dmin

Summary

The group framework is the cause of a first moment of identity-based anxiety, characterized by the non-differentiation of the group members and the projection of cleaved aggressive and libidinal elements. The group becomes a real object, represented and invested by its members as they organize it into a container/ constructor of their primal anxieties. The identification processes, whether to the group or to its members, are constructed and help the psychological person’s Read more

Who dreams in the group?

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, Pierre Ruffieux/by @dmin

Abstract

The author proposes to investigate the group dimension of the dream. Shows the clinical material of a mixed group, closed, comprising six participants engaged in this approach for reasons of training or treatment, which meets once a week for two years. According to the ‘author’s interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the unconscious group, in which the work of interpretation rather to fucus of metaphors and metaphorical narratives, but it is interesting to wonder if it is possible to understand the associations Read more

From counsciousness raising to women’s groups of the 21st century

1 January 1970/in Although we are women, Chiara Valentini/by @dmin

Abstract

Female sociality, which began in spaces and times far removed from domestic society, has been organizing itself in modern societies as the feminist movement, of whose history is evoked by the author, generating through the various historical stages new representations of women, that are able to contribute to the possibility of a new Read more

The impact of the female analytic group leader’s gender as revealed in dreams of male members: a clinical exploration

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, N. Edwards/by @dmin

Abstract

The psychoanalytic literature has always believed that the sex of the therapist is not a significant variable in treatment. Eroticized transference has positive potential, facilitating, restorative and invigorating. “Eroticized” capture the plasticity of sexuality, and creative ways of human beings who can be loved, and eroticize Read more

Psyche and enviroment

1 January 1970/in Anne Noonan, Individual Group and Nature/by @dmin

Abstract

The psyche, in the totality of conscious and unconscious processes, is revealed through the image, thought, and language, and within the group phenomena in relation with the environment. Within this framework are the concepts of protomental and psychoid, respectively, in Bion and Jung, as well as the implications of transference and countertransference, but also in Read more

Unitas Multiplex The therapeutic function of a rite in group psychoanalysis and traditional treatment. Convergence and diversity

1 January 1970/in Alfredo Lombardozzi, The group of gods from Anthropology to Group Psychotherapy/by @dmin

Abstract

The author is inspired by metaphor “Unitex Multiplex”, he thought that taking inspiration from this metaphor would be a good beginning in order to produce a piece of work on groups from the psychoanalytical and anthropological points of view, using multiple approaches, and, at the same time be an attempt to come up with unitary parameters.So, will be further explained to the complexity of ideas that are relative to the therapeutic function in groups. One has also to pay particular attention to the mythical-ritual aspects and also take the contingent factors of the meeting that a small analytical group has into account. These factors possess elements of similarity but are also different from those that are specific to a social group that puts rite into play. The author would now likes to enlarge upon the classical idea of Tarantismo by addressing Ernesto de Martino’s well known study and enlarge upon it with an experience of child group analysis. A common aspect regards a musical ritual that is a structuring element in the Puglia therapeutic rite, whilst in a group of children, it seems to establish a fluid, passionate element that opens up to a different group formation. In the last part the author would now likes to try and express the idea around which the reflection on the “Gods’ Read more

Group and women’s dreams

1 January 1970/in Giovanna Cantarella, Mith Dream and Group/by @dmin

Abstract

The paper I present to you refers in a certain way to a traditional work: the process of finding and giving sense to some recurrent dreams in long-term psychoanalytically oriented therapeutic women’s groups. But I propose to you, though not being in the specific setting, to “treat“ now these dreams in the mental attitude suggested by Gordon Lawrence in his “Social Dreaming”, almost “dreaming them again”, giving space to the echo, to our associations. As they come from the shared experience of our cultural context where our fears and desires as males and females take shape. Moreover, though relating to a “traditional” work of giving sense to dreams, the process through which the sense came to light was due to a long staying in the “negative capacity”, to the “attentive passivity” David Armstrong underlines in his contribution to “Social Dreaming”. The “attentive passivity” is always necessary in our therapeuts’ life but it has Read more

Oneiric icons: the construction of their significance, value and meaning in the group

1 January 1970/in Dream and Group two, Raffaele Menarini, Vera Giovannini/by @dmin

Abstract

Icons avoid the disintegration of the transgenerational favoring the passage from mental continuity with the psychic world familiar to mental discontinuity with the same, which is necessary for the development of an alterity that is the discovery of “what’s different on me.” The group aims at this stage, as the matrix “other”, with its own history, different identically story brought by the individual, at the base of the immutability of mental health problems. The group becomes the site of emergence of a more authentic self, which does not need a mask or to project its Otherness (diversity) from the original matrix of a world of images as far as you near your unconscious that Read more

Research on the gender in the composition of a workshop of photography for schizophrenics, its role in the therapeutic efficiency

1 January 1970/in Although we are women, Aude-Clémence Truquin, Edith Lecourt/by @dmin

Abstract

The present research studies the effects of the gender, in a workshop of expression of a photolanguage type within schizophrenic adults. The initial question was the one of a possible influence of the composition of the groups of therapy, in terms of gender, during the observed processes What is the incidence of the distribution of gender on the Read more

Experiencing interaction: what makes up the bonds of relations with the world?

1 January 1970/in Individual Group and Nature, Johnna G. Haskell/by @dmin

Abstract

The author of the article identifies a constant interactive relationship between people and the world to which they belong, and describes the personal experience of using the interactive link with various outdoor environments. The testing of unknown landscapes opens new routes and new knowledge. experience is not separable from perception, emerges through interconnected systems, are interconnected as well as body-mind-world. The knowledge is through experiencing the flow of actions. The interaction, Read more

Dream interpretation; from traditional cultures to group psychotherapy

1 January 1970/in Ginevra De Bellis, The group of gods from Anthropology to Group Psychotherapy/by @dmin

Abstract

It’ s not surprising that both in western societies and traditional societies, dream interpretation is contextualized socially and culturally. Dream is a human experience, that is filtered through the lenses of our language, our social values, and cultural symbolism. By focusing on how dreams have been used in traditional cultures: the creative potential of dreams, the role of guide and omen, the knowledge that is gained through dreams, the passage to other dimensions and worlds; all these functions that have been analysed by many anthropologists and they allow us to look at dreams from another point of view. A dream that is told in group therapy, can underline the need and the willingness of the group to face the shared unconscious and to develop a connection with the unthinkable. There is a difference between dreaming, that can be considered as intra-psychic event and narrating a dream which by definition is an interpersonal event. In Read more

Dreaming and Thinking in the Group

1 January 1970/in Mith Dream and Group, Silvia Corbella/by @dmin

Abstract

If we consider the group and the individual as different points of a continuum, the commonly accepted ontological dichotomy between the individual and the group will become obsolete, from the moment that specifically human individuality will be seen in relational terms, resulting in an encounter not only between different individuals but also an encounter between different forms of groups. When group therapeutic work starts, intrapsychic aspects become communicable through the interactions that transform the unconscious and archaic aspects of communication into socially shared experiences; thus, the experience and the story of the group become individually and internally represented, in a sharing of reciprocal transformation. My principal references in psychoanalysis are the theories on object relations that have largely contributed to psychoanalytical studies thanks to the relational paradigm. This paradigm emphasizes above all the Read more

Dream, group and toucht Thoughts about a dream of Didier Anzieu

1 January 1970/in Christian Guerin, Dream and Group two/by @dmin

Abstract

The relationship between thought, the subject, the group and the dream. From a reading of a dream of D. Anzieu given in the context of an interview and published, the author has placed emphasis on the components groupal thought that this dream appears to stage. The group is the operator required a cleavage fruitful. To think is to project the group that the subject can’t bind. The thought is marked by reports that the subject has with internal and external Read more

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