The World within the Group

Weegmann, Martin

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“…Foulkes, a classical training psychoanalyst at the Anna Freud School in Britain psychoanalysis in groups as a developing story, giving an account, articulating successive versions of oneself, the culmination of which is retelling of the analysand's life story. To Weegmann (2018), narrative theory adds value and a new perspective to group psychoanalysis, which according to Foulkes, has the ideal of groups as 'working towards a more articulate form of communication', creating a group life with multiplicity of stories, exchanges, positions, harmonies, and dissonances between persons. In groups, the illocutionary force of words allows for words to enact something with outcomes in social relations in which dialogues take place (Norris, 1983).…”

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“…Narratives in groups are of significance for each individual. Weegmann (2018) points to narratives as creating meaning by organizing episodes, aspects, and subsequently, account of our actions. Narratives allow humans to exert intersubjectivity and the ability to ‘mind read’ each other (Tomasello, 1999).…”

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“…Narratives allow humans to exert intersubjectivity and the ability to ‘mind read’ each other (Tomasello, 1999). In group analysis, members provide narratives which are ‘braided’ products, performative creations that populate the group matrix (Weegmann, 2018). The ‘narrative turn’ has a social science significance and allows group analysis to create an interdisciplinary paradigm.…”

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“…The ‘narrative turn’ has a social science significance and allows group analysis to create an interdisciplinary paradigm. As in group analysis, in social science, narrative turns create and articulate forms of group communication (Foulkes and Anthony, 1957; Weegmann, 2018). Memory itself, as it applies to groups, is part of a conversational (narrative) exchange, which is endowed with intersubjective reality.…”

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Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability: A multidisciplinary approach

Novac¹,

Zahn²,

Blinder³

2021

Group Analysis

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Major social political changes over the past decades have stimulated an interest in both individual (i.e., personal) and group narratives as they relate to the decision-making process. In previous contributions, we have proposed the term Identity Narrative (IdN) to define a cognitive and emotional framework that serves as an implicit (unconscious) scaffold of human autobiography. IdN is a form of implicit memory, the acquisition of which begins with the first human nonverbal interactions. It serves as a framework for a person’s identity and creates relative stability and constancy for conscious, explicit, autobiographical memory. In this contribution we are presenting a multi-system exploration of the relationship between personal narratives as influenced by IdN and group narratives and their impact on social stability. We are presenting multi-disciplinary data from a variety of fields, including group psychoanalysis, memory research, the neuroscience of error prediction and free energy, and social science. We propose that in order to maintain social stability, the ratio between the entropy of personal narratives and group narratives in society also remains relatively stable. Based on the literature on group analysis, we are proposing a further investigation of the interchange between group narratives (group psychology, history, the humanities, culture in a society) and individual narratives (autobiography and IdN), and their impact at a societal level. By doing so, we are reiterating that the study of group analysis is of special socio-political significance in these historical times.

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Section: Background Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Background Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability: A multidisciplinary approach

Novac¹,

Zahn²,

Blinder³

2021

Group Analysis

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“…A number of salient patterns, which we would suggest are intimately interlinked, generally appear to emerge. These include attempts by addicted patients to obliterate the boundaries between the present and the future so that desires and wishes are immediately gratified without having to wait; to annihilate transience and the experience of time passing, often through substance‐induced amnesic episodes (the palimpsest or blackout); to extend experiences in time by creating an orgasmic static present; to reverse time's arrow by the use of alcohol and drugs as ‘ nostalgia aids ’, or as ‘memorabilia’, a term used by Martin Weegmann, a London‐based psychotherapist who has written extensively on and contributed significantly in recent years to a fuller understanding of the psychodynamics of addiction (Weegmann & Cohen, ; Reading & Weegmann, ; Weegmann, ).…”

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Bingeing on Sobriety: White Holes, Black Holes and Time's Arrow in the Intra‐Psychic Worlds of Addicted and Substance Abusing Patients

Sweet¹,

Miller²

2016

Brit J Psychotherapy

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Every psychotherapist working in the challenging field of the addictions is familiar with patients who yo-yo between extended periods of abstinence from substances, or other compulsive and nonsubstance-based addictive behaviours, and who then lapse or relapse to compressed periods of excessive substance misuse, the so-called binge episode. In this paper we reverse the lens of theoretical focus somewhat, from its more traditional position within the clinical field of addiction. We suggest that periods of abstinence from substance misuse, or other compulsive behaviours, may also represent a type of binge-like behaviour which satisfies, for a time, core needs though which may also invariably be non-sustainable if the underlying psychodynamic processes underscoring such repetitive abstinence binges are not explored and translated, in work with the patient. Linkage will also be made between poles of experience that addicted and substance abusing patients evince, which are here termed black holes (Sweet, 2012) and white holes (Miller, personal communication, 2015). These proposed intra-psychic structures are, it is asserted, intimately related to the ability, or not, of the individual to bear psychological pain and distress, tolerate separation from objects at both an inter-personal and intra-psychic level and to delay gratification of instinctually grounded desires and wishes. The authors reference Hopper's (1995) previous description of both black holes and white holes in the addictions, and Glasser's (1979) conception of the black hole in relation to perversion and his description of the 'core complex', drawing out both similarities and differences in the viewpoints presented. Key ideas in the paper are illuminated and contextualized through the presentation of a number of illustrative clinical examples.

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Bridging the gaps between Holocaust accounts: Fieldwork evidence for compromising forms of narrative

Lewin,

Zurek,

Davidovitch

2023

Cogent Social Sciences

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The World within the Group

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Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability: A multidisciplinary approach

Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability: A multidisciplinary approach

Bingeing on Sobriety: White Holes, Black Holes and Time's Arrow in the Intra‐Psychic Worlds of Addicted and Substance Abusing Patients

Bridging the gaps between Holocaust accounts: Fieldwork evidence for compromising forms of narrative

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