Group Unconscious Common Orientation: Exploratory Study at the Basque Foundation for the Investigation of Mental Health Group Training for Therapists

Volume 12 No 1 (2014)

Begona Trojaola Zapirain , Federico Carminati , Miguel Angel Gonzalez Torres, Ernesto Gonzalez de Mendivil , Claire Fouassier , Marianne Gex-Fabry , François Martin , José Labarere , Jacques Demongeot , Erika Nora Lorincz, Giuliana Galli Carminati

DOI: 10.14704/nq.2014.12.1.709

Abstract

Group phenomena have been used since antiquity in therapeutic, social, economic and political domains. According to Bion, the interactions between group members generate a “group unconscious” and its behavior is governed and oriented by Bion’s “basic assumptions.” The present work has been conducted during group analysis training at the Basque Foundation for the Investigation of Mental Health (OMIE) at Bilbao, consisting of eleven sessions. The participants are presented with an “absurd questionnaire” proposing 50 pairs of images, in each of which one image has to be chosen

Keywords

group dynamics, synchronicity, basic assumptions, group orientation

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