Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey

ISBN-13: 9780367103767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Opis

Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey is a collection of beautifully written clinical essays by group analysts in Israel - a society which suffers from chronic war and violence. Israeli group conductors share their experience and their special skills concerning the reflection of terror and existential anxiety in their group-analytic therapy groups. The topics range from the influence of society on the individual, the nature of the "group", combined individual and group therapy, groups with mentally ill and elderly patients, and coping with aggressive patients and the self-destructive processes that are ubiquitous in a society threatened with extinction. These group analysts discuss breaking of boundaries, "democracy in action", leadership, paternalism and fanatic identifications. The special place of Shoah survivors and of Arab and Jewish conflict make this book unique. The book conveys both the trauma and the creativity of Israeli society. The editors, Dr Robi Friedman and Yael Doron, represent different generations within the IIGA - the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Foreword , Introduction , Theory , The "ethical envelope" of the analytic group: some thoughts about democratic values implicit in group analysis , What is the "group entity" 1 in group analysis? , Leader, society, sacrifice , Beyond Oedipus in group analysis: the sacrifice of boys in the social unconscious of the Israeli people , The group analysis of the Akeda: the worst and the best feelings in the matrix , The black hole in the social unconscious: a collective defence against shared fears of annihilation , The immune system and group analysis: communication between "self" and "non-self" , The group "not-me" , Practice , On arrivals and departures in slow-open group analytic groups , The group, the boundaries, and between , Combined therapy as a clinical tool: special focus on difficult patients , "Is there hope for change at my age?" , "I still want to be relevant": on placing an older person in an analytic therapy group with younger people , The patient, the group, and the conductor coping with subtle aggression in an analytic group , Foreigner in your motherland, foreigner in your chosen homeland: Jewish cultural identity , Applications of Group Analysis , Group analysis goes to academia: therapeutic approach and professional identity in graduate studies of psychology , Working with a multi-cultural group in times of war: three metaphors of motion and mobility , Co-constructing a common language: aspects of group supervision for the multi-disciplinary staff of a psychiatric ward , Analytic group for the children of the Holocaust and the second generation: a construction of belonging to the injured self through mutual recognition processes , The personal, group, and social aspects of dreaming , The co-creation of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis: notes from the archives

O autorze

Yael Doron