Group Analysis in the Land of Milk and Honey

344 Pages·2018·1.328 MB·English

by  Yael Doron (editor), Robi Friedman (editor)

GROUP ANALYSIS IN
THE LAND OF MILK
AND HONEY

GROUP ANALYSIS
IN THE LAND OF
MILK AND HONEY
edited by
Robi Friedman and Yael Doron
First published 2017 by Karnac Books Ltd.
Published 2018 by Routledge
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS xi
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD xv
INTRODUCTIONby Robi Friedman and Yael Doron xix
PART I
THEORY
CHAPTER ONE
The “ethical envelope” of the analytic group: some 3
thoughts about democratic values implicit in group analysis
Miriam Berger
CHAPTER TWO
What is the “group entity” in group analysis? 19
Avi Berman
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CHAPTER THREE
Leader, society, sacrifice 33
Hanni Biran
CHAPTER FOUR
Beyond Oedipus in group analysis: the sacrifice of boys 47
in the social unconscious of the Israeli people
Joshua Lavie
CHAPTER FIVE
The group analysis of the Akeda: the worst and 61
the best feelings in the matrix
Robi Friedman
CHAPTER SIX
The black hole in the social unconscious: a collective 75
defence against shared fears of annihilation
Yael Doron
CHAPTER SEVEN
The immune system and group analysis: 89
communication between “self” and “non-self”
Nurit Goren
CHAPTER EIGHT
The group “not-me” 105
Ilana Laor
PART II
PRACTICE
CHAPTER NINE
On arrivals and departures in slow-open group 121
analytic groups
Marit Joffe Milstein
CHAPTER TEN
The group, the boundaries, and between 135
Hagit Zohn
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
Combined therapy as a clinical tool: special focus 149
on difficult patients
Pnina Rappoport
CHAPTER TWELVE
“Is there hope for change at my age?” 163
Bracha Hadar
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
“I still want to be relevant”: on placing an older person 177
in an analytic therapy group with younger people
Eric Moss
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The patient, the group, and the conductor coping with 191
subtle aggression in an analytic group
Rachel A. Chejanovsky
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Foreigner in your motherland, foreigner in your chosen 205
homeland: Jewish cultural identity
Suzi Shoshani
PART III
APPLICATIONS OF GROUP ANALYSIS
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Group analysis goes to academia: therapeutic approach and 221
professional identity in graduate studies of psychology
Shulamit Geller and Eran Shadach
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Working with a multi-cultural group in times of war: 235
three metaphors of motion and mobility
Ravit Raufman and Haim Weinberg
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Co-constructing a common language: aspects of group 249
supervision for the multi-disciplinary staff of a
psychiatric ward
Ido Peleg
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Analytic group for the children of the Holocaust and 265
the second generation: a construction of belonging to
the injured self through mutual recognition processes
Enav Karniel Lauer
CHAPTER TWENTY
The personal, group, and social aspects of dreaming 279
Gila Ofer
APPENDIX
The co-creation of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis: 293
notes from the archives
Avi Berman, Miriam Berger, and Joshua Lavie
INDEX 303
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book, co-created by many authors and a whole Matrix, calls for
many acknowledgements. First, we would like to extend our gratitude
to Earl Hopper, with whom the idea of this book was first created. His
support and encouragement helped us to stand up to this challenge.
We thank our families for bearing with our investment in the book.
We wish to thank the Israel Foulkes Fund, the Israeli Institute of
Group Analysis, and anonymous donors, who helped to finance the
book.
We are especially grateful to the twenty writers who joined this
project and together with us made this dream come true. We are also
grateful to Adeela Sharif, who worked on the first English editorial
language phase.
We thank our cherished and loved first professional guides in our
journey of becoming group analysts: first, Bryan Boswood, Tom
Hamrogue, Robin Cooper, Sheila Ernst, and Felix Mendelsohn, who
are no longer among us. Then we also want thank Beatrice Hook,
Levana Marshall, Veronika Munz, and Gabrielle Rikfind, may they
enjoy long and healthy lives, who also came from Europe six times a
year, in good and bad times. All of them will be remembered forever
by our founding generations.
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