Positions and figurations in group analytic psychotherapy: an account of therapeutic processes in the individual as part of the group

Liveras, Matthew

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“…The two women, each speaking initially as the 'representatives' of injured groups, came to speak for themselves and, in doing so, they forged a new alliance with one other and the whole group was engaged by and liberated through this process. Liveras (2019) has given further attention to update this kind of analysis, using the concepts of 'positioning'-drawn from social psychology-and 'figurations' drawn from group analysis 4 . He integrates these two sets of ideas by describing processes of change occurring at both levels, the group and the individual.…”

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The large group in training Parts I and II

Cilasun¹,

Schlapobersky²,

Papanastassiou³

et al. 2021

Group Analysis

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This article studies the work of large groups in the training of group psychotherapists and is organized in two parts for sequential publication. We review the literature on the history and evolution of large groups in general, concentrating on those devoted to the large group in training, starting from the very first, Skynner’s, from which we take our title. The core of the paper explores the learning experience provided by the Large Training Group (LTG) serving students on the Diploma and Qualifying Courses at the Institute of Group Analysis, London (IGA). We describe the LTG from the standpoint of its staff and participating students over a period of some eight years; discuss the role of the staff sub-group in the evolution and co-creation of a particular discourse and we give special attention to the question of leadership and the role of the convener. Each of its two parts contains a vignette that is discussed in the light of the literature reviewed; and each contains a summarizing table, the first devoted to our principles of practice and the second to the primary purposes of the LTG and our staffing responsibilities.

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“…Liveras (2019) has given further attention to update this kind of analysis, using the concepts of ‘positioning’—drawn from social psychology—and ‘figurations’ drawn from group analysis 4 . He integrates these two sets of ideas by describing processes of change occurring at both levels, the group and the individual.…”

Section: Vignettementioning

confidence: 99%

The large group in training Parts I and II

Cilasun¹,

Schlapobersky²,

Papanastassiou³

et al. 2021

Group Analysis

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“…Communicative interaction is thus the dialectical patterning of enabling and conflicting constraints, a feature of any complex process. Central to this process is the figuration of power relations which Elias (1970) considered a structural characteristic of all relationships and which Liveras beautifully describes in a recent paper (Liveras, 2020).…”

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Complexity explained: The dialectical position between theory and practice. Theoretical group analytic concepts and clinical examples

Papanastassiou¹

2021

Group Analysis

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I present below an attempt to understand complexity theory and the dialectical relationship between theory and group analytic practice. These are often concepts difficult to make sense of as they are rarely illuminated with clinical material for the reader or the trainee group analyst to comprehend. After the introduction of the Kantian and Hegelian dialectic and its use to understand group analytic concepts, I move on to the complexity theory and attempt to illustrate its significance with a clinical example from a small group analytic group. Cavafis’s celebrated poem ‘Ithaka’, is used as a metaphor for the utmost importance of the splendid interpersonal and transpersonal journey in group analysis with all its challenges and gains that this brings to the individual and to the group as a whole as the emphasis is on the process (journey) rather the destination (Ithaka).

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Il Grande Gruppo nella formazione

Cilasun,

Schlapobersky,

Papanastassiou

et al. 2024

Gruppi

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Questo articolo è il riassunto di uno scritto pubblicato nella rivista Group Analysis, rivisto per i lettori italiani di Gruppi. Esso esplora l'esperienza formativa fornita attraverso l'utilizzo del Grande Gruppo formativo ("Large Training Group", in seguito LTG) agli studenti dei corsi presso l'Istituto di Gruppoanalisi di Londra (IGA). Descriviamo il LTG dal punto di vista dello staff e degli studenti che vi hanno partecipato in un periodo di circa otto anni; discutiamo il ruolo del sottogruppo dello staff, ponendo particolare attenzione alle questioni riguardanti la leadership e al ruolo di colui che convoca e presiede il gruppo (da ora: convener). * Cilasun J., Schlapobersky J., Papanastassiou M. and Thomas A. (2021). The Large Group in Training. Group Analysis, 55, 3: 407-440. DOI: 10.1177/05333164211037947.

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Positions and figurations in group analytic psychotherapy: an account of therapeutic processes in the individual as part of the group

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

The large group in training Parts I and II

The large group in training Parts I and II

Complexity explained: The dialectical position between theory and practice. Theoretical group analytic concepts and clinical examples

Il Grande Gruppo nella formazione

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