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Borrowing My Self: An Exploration of Exchange as a Group-Specific Therapeutic Factor

Orchard House, 43, Chilbolton Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5HJ, UK.

Exchange, one of Foulkes’s four group-specific therapeutic factors, is a valuable if neglected concept in group-analytic literature, standing for the encounter with difference in the group. Groups’ multiple poles of difference allow individuals to experience and explore a range of possibilities hitherto unimagined. The clinical dimensions of exchange are explored through the metaphor of the mother/baby dyad; identity formation in a specific cultural context grounded in familial and group identifications are also touched upon. In the group these together allow for the creation, and recreation, of individual identity.

Key Words: exchange • difference • information • identity • identification

Group Analysis, Vol. 37, No. 2, 305-320 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316404042856


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