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THE ANTI-GROUP

THE ANTI-GROUP. Destructive Forces in the Group and their Creative Potential Morris Nitsun Consultant clinical psychologist, Camden and Islington NHS FoundationTrust: training group analyst (IGA London). THE SHADOW OF THE GROUP disruptive and destructive forces. Morris Nitsun

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THE ANTI-GROUP

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  1. THE ANTI-GROUP Destructive Forces in the Group and their Creative Potential Morris Nitsun Consultant clinical psychologist, Camden and Islington NHS FoundationTrust: training group analyst (IGA London)

  2. THE SHADOW OF THE GROUPdisruptive and destructive forces Morris Nitsun Consultant clinical psychologist, Group analyst, Private practitioner, the Fitzrovia Group Analytic Practice

  3. IGA SUPERVISION COURSE CREATIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES IN THE GROUP Morris Nitsun Consultant psychologist Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, training group analyst (IGA London)

  4. “Strangely enough, the acknowledgement of the forces of destruction and their agencies helps us and makes us therapeutically far more powerful” Foulkes 1964

  5. FOULKES BION Optimistic vision of the group Pessimistic vision of the group Individual is isolated but with Individual is deeply ambivalent potential for group membership about group membership Group as a reparative, Group as a regressive experience restorative exercise Committed himself to Withdrew from group work group work

  6. THE ANTI-GROUP Describes the negative, disruptive aspects of the group that can undermine the therapeutic task. A critical principle An explanatory paradigm A descriptive construct

  7. THE ANTI-GROUPDefinition • A process not a fixed entity • Latent and manifest forms • Occurs at different levels – individual, sub-group and group as a whole • Reflects adverse group relationships in patients’ histories • Recognition of Anti-group is necessary in order to – - contain negativism and potential destructiveness - understand current and past origins of Anti-group - open the way for constructive group relationships • Reflected in the wider social sphere

  8. THE COMMITMENTS Underlying tensions in the group • Leadership • Rivalry • Envy • Sexual secrets • Individual vs. group orientation

  9. DETERMINANTS OF THE ANTI-GROUP • Annihilation anxiety • Psychological trauma • Narcissistic injury • Destructive envy and rivalry • Failures of communication

  10. DETERMINANTS OF THE ANTI-GROUP (continued) • Frustration of the one-to-one relationship • The alienation of desire • Attacks on linking • Projective identification

  11. THE TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESS (“Nippets and Imps”) • Attacks on the group • Loss and crisis • New members • Sense of survival • Trust in the group • Play / “creative destruction”

  12. Dealing with the Anti-group • A working hypothesis • Counter-transference reflection • The connecting function • Mentalizing the process

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