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Development by Adaptation

Notes on `Applied' Group Analysis

Dieter Nitzgen

Scientific Committee of the Management Committee of the Group Analytic Society, dieter.nitzgen{at}rehaklinik-birkenbuck.de

The article addresses the subject of `applied' group analysis. Regarding the development of group analysis itself, the very term `adaptation' represents a key element of Foulkes' theoretical and clinical thinking from early on. This is particularly obvious in his first book Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy (1948). Discussing problems of applying group analytic principles to field other than the purely therapeutic, Foulkes resorted to the holistic ideas of Kurt Goldstein, especially his notion of the `total situation'. Unlike the traditional psychoanalytic assumptions, a `total situation' for Foulkes is not the totality of transference and counter transference but a social situation in its total dynamic. Therefore, thinking in terms of `total situation' could serve as a key to unlock the problems of applied group analysis.

Key Words: adaptation • applied group analysis • Goldstein • holism • neural networks • Northfield • total situation

Group Analysis, Vol. 41, No. 3, 240-251 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316408094900
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