Oppression, Freedom, and Recognition in an Analytic Therapy Group: Group and Therapist Interactions from Relational and Group Analytic Perspectives

Peleg, Ido

doi:10.1521/ijgp.2012.62.3.436

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“…At first everyone happily took this up, feeling that at last we were all connected, however, the sense of pacing in a circle soon became oppressive and we longed for someone to break that pattern. It was an example of the way in which one member's free movement can oppress another (Peleg 2012), which the group went on to discuss later -including the question of which group in the fishbowl had greater freedom and power -the inner one with a voice or the outer one, observing and reflecting -and who was constraining whom?…”

Section: Reflections On Running the 4ms Workhop At The Lisbon Symposmentioning

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Reflections on running the 4Ms workshop at the Lisbon Symposium 2014

Wotton¹

2014

Group Analysis

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Metaphor, Music and the Re-Making of Meaning: A Workshop Offering a Live Study of Improvisation in the Dynamic Life of Groups. Run by Marit Joffe Milstein, Ido Peleg, John Schlapobersky, Linde Wotton.This was a workshop spread across two days, looking at how change might come about in groups through improvisation -based on the musicality of communication and developed through metaphor. We started each day with a brief theoretical introduction illustrated with material from a large group, followed by an action exercise and then a small group fishbowl experience. A different pair of conductors led the workshop on each of the two days with the other two conductors in the outside circle of the fishbowl. The composition of the group was also different each day as not all of the original participants were able to attend on the second day, when we were also joined by some new members.I wondered what expectations we had set up with our title when I realised that we had dancers, musicians and drama therapists amongst the participants -and feared that we would disappoint. However, I was struck by the participants' pleasure in being invited to take part in a joint exploration rather than being told 'this is how it is'. The paradox is that this opportunity was created by the firm structure imposed by the conductors -and this, of course, is true of all analytic groups.The members of our workshop were courageous -especially those who came back for more on the second day -because action techniques pose quite a challenge for group analysts, comfortable with free floating discussion. As one participant commented, 'It seemed that I could more easily be eaten up/engulfed by the others in the nonverbal exercise than when we used words.' The metaphor of being eaten perhaps linked to the introductory material which came from a large staff group in a psychiatric hospital where part of the discussion related to the size of plates at meal times. Even the fishbowl format that we used for the verbal part of the workshop held particular

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Section: Reflections On Running the 4ms Workhop At The Lisbon Symposmentioning

confidence: 99%