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Migration, Identity and Group Analysis

Psychology Department, Hunter Street Health Centre, 8 Hunter Street, London WC1N IBN, UK.

Migrants from one country to another may experience a profound disturbance of their individual, social and cultural identities. A group-analytic psychotherapy group provides a microcosm of the adopted culture. Membership of such a group may enable immigrants to develop a sense of belonging to the group and thus to resolve, or resolve again, their `crises' of `identity v. identity confusion' in the new culture. Through the processes of identification, belonging and learning to share the language of the group, a sense of intimacy with others may be achieved.

Key Words: belonging • identification • identity • intimacy • migration

Group Analysis, Vol. 36, No. 1, 97-110 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316403036001206


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