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In Autumn, 1984, the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies inaugurated its new group training program with a series of lectures on modern group analysis. The texts of three of the four lectures are published here. Because of a prior commitment, the text of the fourth lecture, by Louis Ormont, will be published by a different journal.
The distinctive clinical and theoretical viewpoint of modern psychoanalysis makes the phenomena surrounding the subject of group analysis a focus of attention in the training of students. Powerful emotional forces are released when individuals meet together in groups. In the effective use of these emotional responses lies a special contribution of modern analysis. In these lectures, experienced practitioners discuss and demonstrate a variety of modern methods and approaches to special as well as general problems arising in the practice of group analysis.
Hyman Spotnitz discusses the powerful forces that are generated when people in individual treatment are assembled in groups of as many as twenty or more. Spotnitz demonstrates how the group leader facilitates the expression of these forces and how emotional communication, properly channeled, leads to individual maturation as well as creativity.
Phyllis Meadow's lecture focuses on the shifts and patterns of resistances that appear when marital partners, parents and children, and colleagues join each other in group settings.
Leslie Rosenthal examines how both individual and group resistances manifest themselves over the life of a group and how the resolution of group resistances can facilitate maturation simultaneously among various members.