From: Ronald Creagh [ronald.creagh-AT-wanadoo.fr]

 

Mark F. Ettin and Bertram D. Cohen, “Working through a Psychotherapy Group's Political Cultures” in International Journal of Group Psychotherapy. (2003) 53 (4) : 479-504.

ABSTRACT:  Macropolitical evolution, starting with authoritarian monarchism, has moved through anarchistic transitions either to the totalitarianism of fascism and communism or to liberal and social democracy. We posit analogous micropolitical development in process-oriented therapy groups: "dependence" and "counter-dependence" corresponding to monarchism and anarchism; and "independence" and "interdependence" to liberal and social democracy, respectively. Transition from counter-dependence to independence and interdependence may be: (1) facilitated through group members' cooperative experience of rebellion, or (2) blocked by collective identification, the internalization of dystopian or Utopian fantasies that coalesce as "group-self" perceptions. We explore how group therapists work clinically with and through these several "political cultures" in the service of group and self transformation.

 

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