2017
DOI: 10.1177/0533316417722967
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Leader or Guide? A Response to R.M. Billow’s ‘Relational Group Psychotherapy: An Overview. Part III: Modes of Therapeutic Leadership’, September 2017

Abstract: Richard Billow's review of relational group psychotherapy has been divided into three parts, on account of its length, but it is really an organic whole. It is a valuable summary of his theoretical and technical position on group psychotherapy, but it differs significantly from that of group analysis, since it is more psychoanalytic than group-analytic. The main difference is that the author conceives the conductor as a leader and advocates the need for his constant presence from a central position. Group anal… Show more

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“…In a recent paper (Tubert-Oklander, 2017), I have described this metaphor in the following terms:Jazz music is a hybrid product, a mestizo of the African music style and European instruments and melodies. In a jam session, the whole group—typically a small one—starts playing a pre-existent and recognizable melody, usually initiated by the group leader.…”
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“…In a recent paper (Tubert-Oklander, 2017), I have described this metaphor in the following terms:Jazz music is a hybrid product, a mestizo of the African music style and European instruments and melodies. In a jam session, the whole group—typically a small one—starts playing a pre-existent and recognizable melody, usually initiated by the group leader.…”
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“…This turns me with gratitude to my responders-all damned good-and to D. Nitzgen (2017), who astutely assigned them to this three-part project. I have concentrated on the responses to Part III (Doron, 2017;Friedman, 2017;Gotz, 2017;Ofer, 2017;Tubert Oklander, 2017;Slonim, 2017;Weinberg, 2017). The responders of Parts I and II, not privy to its organic unity (and some seemed unfamiliar with my other writings), were at an assessment disadvantage.…”
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“…Moreover, he asserts that by making this claim, he pinpoints the principal difference between the relational approach proposed by Billow and Foulkesian group analysis. For Tubert Oklander, all three articles on relational group psychotherapy form an ‘organic whole that can only be formally divided for editorial reasons’ (Tubert Oklander, 2017: 348). Due to this, he feels free to take ‘into consideration the three parts as well as the dialogue already initiated by the previous commenters’ as one (Tubert Oklander, 2017: 348).…”
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“…For Tubert Oklander, all three articles on relational group psychotherapy form an ‘organic whole that can only be formally divided for editorial reasons’ (Tubert Oklander, 2017: 348). Due to this, he feels free to take ‘into consideration the three parts as well as the dialogue already initiated by the previous commenters’ as one (Tubert Oklander, 2017: 348). Building on this assumption, he maintains that although there are ‘a number of major differences’ that exist between the two approaches, mainly due to ‘the theoretical frame’ of Billow’s reflections (basically psychoanalytic and orientated on Bionian ideas) and to his ‘underlying assumptions about human nature and relations’, ‘the most important difference ’ between his relational approach and group analysis ‘is to be found in his conception of the group therapist as a leader ’ (Tubert Oklander, 2017: 349 italics mine) and his subsequent advocating of ‘ the need for his constant presence from a central position ’ (Tubert Oklander, 2017: 347).…”
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