Commentary on ‘Group Analytic Methods Beyond the Clinical Setting—Working with Researcher–Managers’ by Christopher Mowles, Group Analysis June 2017

Response to Bob Hinshelwood and Morris Nitsun

“…Nitsun expresses concern that as an advocate for the programme I might be in danger of ‘creating a new dogma, with all its religiosity and self-righteousness, and the tendency to close down rather than open up debate, in spite of protestations to the contrary’ (2017: 274–275). Whatever my protestations, one clear counter-mechanism in the Academy is that every DMan student who completes their thesis has to defend their ideas in the presence of two independent examiners, one of whom is from a different university.…”