gruppenanalyse

Through a consulting process, the dysfunctional and destructive interaction between managers and their subordinate work teams, which is spreading in an increasingly regressed state, is understood in cautious steps. In a transformative consulting...

This article describes working with large groups using different formats and techniques. Special attention is given to the distinction between the analytical large group and the group-analytical large group. In addition, working with large groups is...

In the following article, some of the central characteristics of group analysis are described and explained. The aim is to focus on those aspects of group analysis that are unique to the theory and method of this psychotherapeutic format. The aim is...

This article deals with boundary work in group-analytic supervision, based on group-analytic understanding – including the associated instruments of knowledge – and group-analytic attitude – including the associated techniques. Against this...

Based on a workshop on this topic at the event of »Days of Group Analysis« of the Heidelberg Institute for Group Analysis in 2025, two practicing psychotherapists and group analysts reflect on their group therapy work. They see the combination of...

Systemic group therapy is placed in a historical context and linked to basic assumptions such as constructivism, autopoiesis, second-order cybernetics, and synergetics. Symptoms are seen as an expression of unsuccessful communication and interaction...

This article examines how psychodrama and group analysis can enrich each other. It shows how psychodrama understands the group as a living space for action in which people explore and change their relationships and conflicts through action. Key...

Based on the »Dodo Bird Verdict« from Alice in Wonderland, that general factors of psychotherapeutic action outweigh specific factors, the historical overlaps and mutual influences of the four methods group dynamics, psychodrama, group analysis...

The interview conducted by Beatrice Kustor with Elisabeth Rohr explores the motivations that led people to take an interest in this method in the early 1980s, when group analysis was hardly known in Germany. It was probably above all a context that...

This text examines the dynamics of the »neighborhood mentality« over time and its relevance to social and therapeutic processes. Historically, the question »What do the neighbors think?« served as the primary psychological regulator in postwar...

In this text, the author uses the sibling matrix to explain how sibling relationships shape our lives and what effects they have on our private, professional and social lives. She illustrates her findings with numerous case-studies and argues for a...

This article focuses on the different meaning(s) of family and culture in Foulkes’ work. It circles around Foulkes’ statement that »the family is to be regarded as a model of supreme importance that recurs in all cultures«; its overall...

In this interview, author and group analyst Jane Campbell describes the creation of her novel Interpretations of Love, which centres on a sibling relationship. She gives us an insight into the life of Malcolm, one of the siblings and the novel’s...

This article introduces the topic of siblings, discussing the personal sibling relationships of early psychoanalysts. It then explores theoretical developments before concluding with an examination of mentalisation-based work with groups in...

Hopper states, that there is little literature on the subject of siblings. Today there is a variety of family forms, siblings do not necessarily have to be biologically related. A sibling group is different from a peer group or a group of...

After presenting the theory of loss of cohesion: aggregation/massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious »life« of traumatized social systems, Hopper argues that massification as a defence against aggregation is linked to and...

In this very personal text, the author describes her own path to group analysis and establishes connections between religion, history, biography and politics. The focus is on the examination of her Jewish origins, the intergenerational transfer of...

This article is primarily about the not always easy task of winning groups and teams over to the approach of group analytical supervision, which initially seems unusual and abstract, especially when everything psychoanalytic seems frightening. In...

In this interview, the two protagonists describe their path into the religious orders of the Salesians and the Augustinians. An impressive analysis of their personal motives for joining the orders is followed by an unsparing critique and description...