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Dialectic of War Trauma

11 July 2022/in Maciej Zbyszewski, Trauma and Group. Working with homogeneity and differences/by @dmin

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The paper refers to the theoretical and clinical analysis of work with homogeneous groups on the example of war veterans group therapy. In particular, the specificity of psychological content developed by veterans referring to traumatic experiences related to the uniqueness of the war is explored. The conflicts and needs of people who live in a chronic state of separation from contact with civil society are subject to analysis. Such phenomena as the durability of Read more

Institutional dynamics within psychoanalytic training

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

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The inherent difficulties within psychoanalytic training are revised in the light of the phenomena of mourning and of incest with whom each student has to deal at the end of his/her personal analysis before entering the training. I hypothesize that a satisfactory “defusion” from the phantasm of the personal analyst and from the related processes of idealization is particularly hampered by the institutional Read more