Difficult Days: The Continuing Evolution of Relational Group Analysis: Discussion of “Taking the Sting Out: Manifesting Aggression and Containing Difficult States in a Relational Group Psychotherapy”

Relational Psychoanalysis and Clinical Practice

“…For Weinberg (2019, p. 229), it highlights the larger sociocultural matrix in which we comprehend aggression. For Grossmark (2019), it is an opportunity for theory: I suggest that Raufman's difficult days are emblematic of being caught between older, more classically based theory that inheres in much group therapy and theory and the recent embrace of relational concepts. (p. 217) Consequently, in relational thinking:…”