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K O I N O N IA From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Large Group Patrick de Mare Robin Piper Sheila Thompson K A R N AC BOOKS KOINONIA From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Large Group Sheila Thompson, Patrick de Mare, Robin Piper Photo by Hanne Maier KOINONIA From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Large Group Patrick de Mare Robin Piper Sheila Thompson Karnac Books London 1991 New York First published in 1991 by H. Karnac (Books) Ltd, 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT Distributed in the United States of America by Brunner/Mazel, Inc. 19 Union Square West New York, NY 10003 Copyright© 1991 by Patrick de Mare All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form, by any process or technique, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data De Mare, Patrick B. Koinonia: from hate through dialogue to culture in the larger group. 1. Medicine. Psychoanalysis. Group therapy I. Title 616.8917 ISBN 978-0-946439-82-9 Printed in Great Britain by BPC Wheatons Ltd, Exeter / have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And for because the world is populous And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it; yet Fll hammer it out. My brain Til prove the female to my soul, My soul the father; and these two beget A generation of still-breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world, In humours like the people of this world. For no thought is contented. Shakespeare, Richard the Second, Act V, Scene 5 CONTENTS THE AUTHORS ix ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xii FOREWORD BY PAMELA STEINER xiii Koinonia 1 Introduction 3 CHAPTER ONE The story of the larger group approach 9 CHAPTER TWO The median group 23 CHAPTER THREE Dialogue 41 vii Vlll CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Culture and Koinonia CHAPTER FIVE Object relations theory. Systems thinking and structuralism CHAPTER SIX Ecological perspectives Postscript APPENDICES Spiral course of introjected, projected, reintrojected and reprojected objects via the larger groups matrix The psychoanalytic, the small-group, and the large-group settings The three cultures The Large Group Section brochure The large group diary REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX THE AUTHORS D R P ATRICK DE MA R£ was born in London in 1916, of Swedish parentage. He was educated at Well ington, Cambridge, and St George's Hospital. He qualified as a doctor in 1941 and enlisted in the RAMC in 1942, when he was trained for Army psychiatry by Rick man and Bion at Northfield Hospital. He ran an Exhaus tion Centre throughout the European campaign, at the end of which he returned to Northfield, where he joined Foulkes and Main in the Northfield experiment. After the war he became a Consultant Psychotherapist at St George's Hospital; in 1952 he set up the Group Ana lytic Society with Foulkes, and later he participated in set ting up the Institute of Group Analysis and the Group Analytic Practice. He also worked with Benaim and Lionel Kreeger at Halliwick Hospital, the short-lived therapeutic community. In 1972 he published Perspectives in Group Psycho therapy (Allen & Unwin) and in 1974 Lionel Kreeger and ix
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