The Group Quest

Deaconu, Diana

doi:10.1177/0362153713515177

Transactional Analysis Journal

2013

DOI: 10.1177/0362153713515177

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The Group Quest

Diana Deaconu¹

Abstract: This article discusses some of the issues raised by Richard Erskine’s (2013) article “Relational Group Process: Developments in a Transactional Analysis Model of Group Psychotherapy.” The author’s perspective stems from her clinical experience in the Romanian social and cultural context and emphasizes the role of moments of discomfort and unconscious communication when working with groups.

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Sicily in the therapy room

Sisalli¹

2021

Psychother Politics Int

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Cultural factors characterising the places of belonging, together with the family and personal development, constitute the history of people we meet in the therapy room (and that of the therapist as well). Drawing on this long‐established idea, the author—a native Sicilian working and teaching in Sicily—identifies and describes two aspects characterising the Sicilian culture that he has encountered in his clinical practice. The first aspect relates to the phylogenetic imago of Sicilians in connection with their relationship to authority—particularly authorities representing the community, or favouring a social advantage. As written by Bufalino (2008), Sicily is in fact a ‘plural island’. There are many Sicilies, many cultural groups that do not identify themselves in a single social body. This pluralism is held together by personal interests and duties between individuals, in a dimension that excludes any social and public interest. Such a plurality has been maintained through the use of a code that would, in other social contexts, have to do with confidentiality; yet, it becomes omertà (a sort of act of silence) in Sicily. The author identifies the way this code expresses itself in the therapy room and how it interposes itself in the therapeutic relationship. The second aspect concerns the relationship of Sicilians with the Sicilian landscape and with the Etna volcano in particular. Sicilians—especially the ones living in Eastern Sicily—are connected to Mount Etna by sensory participation. The relationship between them and Etna is so full of affection, symbols and myth that it becomes part of their identity, manifesting itself in the therapy room through dreams.

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Sicily in the therapy room

Sisalli¹

2021

Psychother Politics Int

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In Conflict and Community

Cornell¹

2016

Transactional Analysis Journal

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This article examines the century-long pairing of international wars followed by periods of resurgent interest in group psychotherapy and community-based treatment. It then focuses on the evolution of group and community treatment models, drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud, Trigant Burrow, Wilfred Bion, S. H. Foulkes, and Eric Berne to explore and illustrate the societal functions and difficulties of living and working in groups. The author offers his personal reflections on working with groups and concludes with a discussion of how group analytic models can extend the traditional models of transactional analysis group treatment to enhance the capacity of members to work with conflict, difference, and unconscious projections.

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