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Containing Containers: Attention to the ‘Innerface’ and ‘Outerface’ of Groups in Secure Institutions

Jo-anne Carlyle

Tavistock Clinic, London.

Chris Evans

Rampton Hospital, Retford, Nottinghamshire DN22 0PD, UKchris{at}psyctc.org

In this paper we argue that work with groups in forensic settings highlights key elements of the relational processes at the ‘outerface’ of the group, as well as within the group. Drawing on Bion's idea of containment we explore the triadic aspects that are fundamental to group and systems work and examine the specific quality of attention that this requires of the group therapist/analyst.

Key Words: violent patients • institutional settings • containment • innerface • outerface

Group Analysis, Vol. 38, No. 3, 395-408 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316405055391
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