gruppenanalyse

Linking improvisation with the concept of group analysis expands the range of expression within the group analytic setting and allows for creative interactions. This can bring to light hidden or elusive emotions and thoughts that may not be easily...

The objective of this text is to present Pichon-Rivière’ s notion of task as a means to deal with the unconscious dimensions in groups outside of the consulting room. The text contains a theoretical and practical reflection. Castanho starts with...

This article presents the first phase of a supervision process of a group of voluntary hospice caregivers. The focus of the reflection is the question why it was in the matrix of this supervision group to fall silent in an agonising way, because...

In a preliminary remark those brilliant —mostly Jewish– German speaking intellectuals of the 20th-century in central Europe are acknowledged, who formed the background—the matrix—from which Foulkes developed his ideas of matrix and...

In the following text, the influences of team dynamics on the course of an inpatient psychotherapy group are described in terms of the intertwining of the group matrix with the institutional context. The author also refers to anti-group phenomena...