The phases of development and the systems-centered group

Agazarian, Yvonne M.; Pines, Malcolm

doi:10.4324/9780429480720-7

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“…I can just recommend to group analysts who are interested: try it, it is one contribution we are educated to make. This Sandwich Model 16 , seems able to promote a difficult dialogue and understanding. It seems a journey, neither easy nor glorious.…”

Section: Working With a Unique 'Social Unconscious'mentioning

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“…The conductor in group analysis has the complicated task of being an authority by providing safe boundaries on the one hand and, on the other, of developing the participants’ own therapeutic authority in their own space. The conductor ‘weans’ the members’ dependency tendencies (Foulkes, 1964: 40) by consistently moving the process from a leader-centred to a group-centred approach (Agazarian, 1994) which includes his own marginalization.…”

Section: The Foundation Matrix and The Group-analytic Large Groupmentioning

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Beyond rejection, glory and the Soldier’s Matrix: the heart of my group analysis

Friedman¹

2018

Group Analysis

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During my 45 year journey in the different approaches to psychotherapy, an interest in small, median and later in large groups have influenced me professionally. Many in the Israel IGA had a similar professional history until we finally felt group analysis as our home. I also learned from experiences of rejection and glory. A Trauma-Glory continuum, connected to rejection and inclusion, will be discussed. Glory, which is considered a basic social motivation, could have a special space in group analysis. The concept of the Soldier's Matrix will be discussed, with a distinctive group-analytic approach to the large group and 'the Sandwich model'. This group analytic application, could be taken as a possible 'anti-dote' to difficult social configurations as are found in 'soldiers' matrices'.

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Section: The Foundation Matrix and The Group-analytic Large Groupmentioning

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Beyond rejection, glory and the Soldier’s Matrix: the heart of my group analysis

Friedman¹

2018

Group Analysis

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“…Agazarian, in her extensive work on systems-centred groups, identified the ambivalent role of the scapegoat as someone who contains for the group both the wish to victimize and to be a victim. She saw this as a defence against differentiating and in the service of sadism (Agazarian, 1994). Nitsun, in his ground-breaking work on the phenomenon of the anti-group, recognized the premature and unexpected withdrawal from the group of an individual bearing the brunt of group criticism as a manifestation of scapegoating when the group is developing an anti-group dynamic.…”

Section: General Aspects Of the Scapegoat Dynamicmentioning

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Captain Alfred Dreyfus: A case study in the group dynamics of scapegoating

Behr¹

2018

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This article explores the metaphor of the scapegoat by offering a case study taken from the history of France at the turn of the 20thcentury. The case is presented of a French army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, whose wrongful conviction for treason created an international sensation and tore French society apart. The author outlines the general features of the scapegoating dynamic and applies them to the Dreyfus case. He sets out the flow of events from Dreyfus's first trial through to the official declaration of his innocence a century after his conviction, illustrating the tenacity of the scapegoating dynamic when an entire nation is caught up in the process. The view is put forward that it was the dramatic intervention by the novelist Emile Zola in the Dreyfus case which arrested the scapegoating process. The author asks what the implications of this might be for group analysis. At the centre of the Dreyfus case was the fact of his Jewishness. The author depicts anti-Semitism as a deeply rooted set of assumptions based on myths about the Jews. He touches on the origins of these myths in early monotheistic theology and in the political ideology of the Far Left and the Far Right. An explanation is offered for the persistence of these myths in our culture, which may extend to our understanding of myths surrounding other peoples and societies. The author concludes with some reflections on the recurring nature of the scapegoat phenomenon.

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“…In practice, the primary goals relate to the system development and transformation in each of the phases of system development, which are authority, collaboration, and work (Agazarian, 1994(Agazarian, , 1999. The secondary goals of systems are the explicit goals, which are represented by the tasks that a group has come together to accomplish.…”

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“…Bennis and Shepard (1956) developed Bion's basic assumptions into a theory of group development. Agazarian (1981Agazarian ( , 1994, building on Bennis and Shepard's work, reconceptualized these phases as subsystems within the developmental process of all living human systems.…”

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