Articoli che contengono il tag: therapeutic communities
Leading from below? Decisions, responsibility and creativity as a group dynamic
Abstract The institution tends to organise the individual in standard ways. And individuals are vulnerable to being organised for the convenience of the institution. Probably psychiatric patients needing hospitalisation are especially vulnerable to this coercive influence. This has for long … Continua a leggere
Inscription into the community. A footnote on a Lacanian approach to the group treatment of psychosis
Abstract Situating psychoanalysis as the foundation of the therapeutic community and as a spiritual exercise, the author argues that contemporary approaches articulate a form of akēdia – a desire to be elsewhere – both in its focus on expectation and … Continua a leggere
Joining Families: the adopted child, the internal group, and the process of assimilation
Abstract In this paper I describe how the inner world of the late-adopted child is peopled with a pre-existing group of birth parents and previous carers. The task of adoptive parents is to assimilate this previously internalised group into the … Continua a leggere
