The Times They Are A-Changing: Evolving Group Analytic Identity

Hutchinson, Sylvia

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“…Hopper and Weinberg (2011: xlvii) acknowledge this by stating that foundation matrices are in flux, but are ‘ transgenerational in their origins and development’ . As Hutchinson (2017) states in her article on the evolving identity of group analysis, however, the times they are a-changing. The cultural and social influences on our lives are no longer bound in a tight circle around each person but are flung far across the globe, facilitated by the Internet, evolving methods of communication, and contemporary migration.…”

Section: The Dynamic Foundationmentioning

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The Dynamic Foundation: Harnessing Difference within the Matrix

Kent¹

2018

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The world is awash with new technologies, increasing migration, and ever-expanding methods of communication—all of which are reflected in and around the groups we conduct. This article charts the evolution of Foulkes’ group matrix before critically examining the notion of a foundation matrix in order to address the relevance of a concept that was created when the world seemed to move at a much slower pace. A development is offered that attempts to incorporate the dynamic and evolving world in which we live, harnessing difference within the matrix for transformational change.

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The Dynamic Foundation: Harnessing Difference within the Matrix

Kent¹

2018

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Response to Foulkes 41st Lecture: ‘The Times They Are A-Changing: Evolving Group Analytic Identity’—Who Is Being Group-Analytic? by Sylvia Hutchinson (2017)

Vincent¹

2017

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I would like to start off with a story from a group. This was a group that ran for 24 years at the hospital where I worked, although of course I was the only person in it who was there all the way through. Patients do sometimes get better, but group analysts just carry on. This is about halfway through, it is several years ago, and the group did give permission to write about them, but still I have changed the details. One patient in the group was a very clever, eloquent man with severe long-lasting manic-depressive illness for which he took a mood stabilizer and anti-depressants. He had had admissions in the past. When he was low, he could be dangerously suicidal, and when he was high, he could be angry and grating and omnipotent. If he came high to the group, they would know immediately and tell him forcefully what he was doing, and he would often calm down. He was clever and well read, not well enough to work, but with many interests and a deep commitment to a range of unconventional religious beliefs. He was also the child of old-style communist parents, and he and his siblings felt always that their parents cared more about the international working class than they ever did their children. Similarly, in the group, he either idealized me at a distance or, more often, found me unkind and useless, the sort of therapist, he thought, who, like his parents, cared more about the group than about him. One day, when he was quite well, he was talking about his intense 736724G AQ0010.

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Response to 41st Foulkes Lecture by Sylvia Hutchinson

Husemann¹

2017

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The Times They Are A-Changing: Evolving Group Analytic Identity

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

The Dynamic Foundation: Harnessing Difference within the Matrix

The Dynamic Foundation: Harnessing Difference within the Matrix

Response to Foulkes 41st Lecture: ‘The Times They Are A-Changing: Evolving Group Analytic Identity’—Who Is Being Group-Analytic? by Sylvia Hutchinson (2017)

Response to 41st Foulkes Lecture by Sylvia Hutchinson

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