Ring of Fire: Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy

Ganzarain, Ramon

doi:10.1080/00207284.1996.11491500

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“…The phases of system development presented in this article follow the sequence introduced by Bennis and Shepard (1956) and adapted to a systems framework by Agazarian (1994Agazarian ( , 1997Agazarian ( , 1999Agazarian & Gantt, 2000). Bennis and Shepard documented the phases and subphases that they observed occurring spontaneously in groups and identified Phase 1 as Dependence and Counterdependence, Phase 2 as Interdependence, and Phase 3 as Consensual Validation.…”

Section: Phases Of System Developmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Phases of group development: Systems-centered hypotheses and their implications for research and practice.

Agazarian¹,

Gantt²

2003

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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This article conceptualizes the phases of group development using Y. M. Agazarian's theory of living human systems (1997) and K. Lewin's field theory (1951). Linking these theories to operational models builds a bridge to research by making it possible to generate specific hypotheses. The basic systems-centered hypothesis can then be tested empirically: that weakening the restraining forces at the boundary between each subphase of system development releases the driving forces inherent in all living human systems, so that the system moves toward the next phase of development-in the direction of the inherent system goals of survival, development, and transformation. The discussion focuses on the implications for group leaders in organizations and therapeutic practice.

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Section: Phases Of System Developmentmentioning

confidence: 98%

Phases of group development: Systems-centered hypotheses and their implications for research and practice.

Agazarian¹,

Gantt²

2003

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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“…Members tend to repeat old roles and get some temporary relief from the frustration of trying to communicate when they can interact around identified patients or scapegoats. Frequently at this stage, psychodynamic therapists focus on the underlying depressive and schizoid-paranoid dynamics and accept the creation of both the identified patient and the scapegoat as an inevitable manifestation of unconscious processes that human beings are doomed to act out (Agazarian, 1994). Systems-centered therapists would reframe this understanding by placing the events in context.…”

Section: Group Dynamics In the Phase Of Authoritymentioning

confidence: 97%

Phases of Development in the Systems-Centered™ Psychotherapy Group

Agazarian¹

1999

Small Group Research

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The systems-centered approach to group psychotherapy systematically weakens the restraining forces at the boundaries of each subphase and phase of group development, so that the inherent system drive toward therapeutic development and transformation will be released in the group-as-a-whole, its members, and its subgroups. The SCT methods of functional subgrouping, boundarying, vectoring, and contextualizing are introduced as strategies to reduce both the restraining forces to group development and the symptomology that has brought members into the therapy group.

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“…Gibbons ( 2016) explores the importance of the expression of hatred in the development of the analytic group as it progresses from the paranoid-schizoid position towards a more depressive position. According to Kaufmann (1994), who is not a group analyst, mourning corresponds to the therapeutic and the developmental process of the group as it reaches the depressive position. Klein's theory of developmental stages, with its correspondent defence systems and anxieties, seems essential in understanding the unfolding of the mourning process in groups.…”

Section: Group Analysis and Mourningmentioning

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Mourning becomes us

Castellani¹

2023

Group Analysis

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This paper posits that mourning is fundamentally a social process. The inability to mourn has dangerous consequences for the individual and for society. Social support and community networks are necessary in order to tolerate the pain of loss and overcome the resistance through sharing in the group. Based on clinical material from a two-year analytic training group run in an NHS psychotherapy department, the author argues that the developmental and therapeutic process of the group corresponded to the unfolding of the mourning process. The development of the capacity to mourn brought transformation in the group, leading to a more coherent sense of identity, both of individual members and of the group as a whole.

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Ring of Fire: Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Phases of group development: Systems-centered hypotheses and their implications for research and practice.

Phases of group development: Systems-centered hypotheses and their implications for research and practice.

Phases of Development in the Systems-Centered™ Psychotherapy Group

Mourning becomes us

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