From A Group Turn to a Field Turn: A Commentary on Stavros Charalambides’s Proposal for Integrating Group Work into Psychoanalytic Training

Training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis-Los Angeles. He was the 2025 Louis Ormont Keynote Speaker at the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the 2020-2021 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). He has developed pioneering scholarship and practice—an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis—exploring the social unconscious through social dreaming. The author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019), he has focused on numerous contemporary sociopolitical concerns: American xenophobia; Whiteness and psychoanalysis; Black reparations; the LGBTQ unconscious in the Trump era; and the global unconscious during the pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’s most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy.”