Book Review: Dreamtelling, Relations, and Large Groups: New Developments in Group Analysis

Mies, Thomas

doi:10.1177/0533316420948010

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“…However, despite this spatial configuration, intimacy is generated. Recounting a dream is an intimate act (Friedman, 2019). Participants continue relating to each other, and group dynamics are elicited (although Lawrence did not address them).…”

Section: The Social Dreaming Matrix’s Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the enactment and theme of intrusive and disturbing external realities that was evoked in the previous two Matrixes reverberated in the current one, revealing blurred boundaries, insufficient containment, paranoid anxieties, and the Basic Assumption Fight–Flight Mentality (Bion, 1961). The group‐as‐a‐whole was a non‐dreamer , incapable of transforming undigested, archaic and traumatic beta elements into alpha thinking (Friedman, 2019). The current Matrix's seating configuration apparently inflamed primitive anxieties, death and murder phantasies, common to the phantasies of the ‘back’ and ‘behind’ .…”

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“…Thereafter, only dream fragments that were deemed insufficient were recollected. The dreams' fragmented quality expressed the anxiety of the group-as-a-whole and the participants about the Matrix's containment capacity (Friedman, 2019).…”

Section: The Dream Reflection Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dreaming transforms mentally indigestible traumatic experiences into dreams, which helps thinking (Bion, 1984). Dreams are the royal road not only into the dreamer's inner world, as Freud argued, but also to their environment‐related difficulties (Friedman, 2019). Dreaming and dream‐telling are successive and complementary phases of the emotional digestion process for both the dreamer and members of his social environment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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A Group Psychoanalytic Approach to the Social Dreaming Matrix: A Found‐and‐Created Device

Salaam Abdel‐Malek

2023

Brit J Psychotherapy

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To differentiate the Social Dreaming Matrix from Group Relations Conferences, Gordon Lawrence provided a specific denomination, framework and primary task. Despite these new parameters, Lawrence understood that group dynamics persisted in the Matrix, perceiving social dreaming and group dynamics as two lenses of a binocular informing the Matrix. However, to fulfil the Matrix's primary task of accessing the social unconscious, he advocated a non‐psychoanalytic monocular vision emphasizing social dreaming. In this article, I argue that the Social Dreaming Matrix and the Dream Reflection Dialogue that follows are, from a psychoanalytic perspective, two moments of a group whose primary task is Social Dreaming. Looking from a psychoanalytic perspective through the two lenses of social dreaming and group dynamics provides a wider perspective of the social unconscious, generating insights. This group psychoanalytic approach is a found‐and‐created framework rediscovering and recreating the object‐Social Dreaming Matrix framework proposed by Lawrence. To support this argument, I analysed a series of Social Dreaming Matrixes and Dream Reflection Dialogues occurring during a social dreaming training programme to show how the unfolding group dynamics revealed the social unconscious as did social dreaming.

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Section: The Social Dreaming Matrix’s Frameworkmentioning

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Section: The Dream Reflection Dialoguementioning

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