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What is group analysis?Since the 1930s research in social studies has altered our insights into the nature of relationships between individuals and their environment and the influence these relationships have on the development of personality. The personality of individuals, their development, potential and disorders are now defined through their participation in social groups (family, peer group, collegues). These concepts gave grounds for group forms of therapy. Once it is agreed that a group is crucial for the social and psychological development of individuals, consequently the analysis and treatment of various aberrations of that development should be performed in a group, through a group and with its active participation. The group analysis, also referred to as group psychoanalysis, is a form of group psychotherapy combining the elementary canons of psychoanalysis (recognising such phenomena as resistance, projection and counter-projection, the role and actions of a therapist) with processes and influences operating in a group. The specific social context established by a therapy group modifies the basis of psychoanalysis creating a new quality: analytic group psychotherapy. The theoretical basis of this new notion with its clinical application was formulated by S.H.Foulkes. In 1952 S.H.Foules, Jane Abercrombie and Norbert Elias established The Group Analitic Society (London), which soon gained international recognition. Group analysis interested and attracted the representatives of various disciplines: psychology, sociology, medicine, education, industry, architecture, antropology and teology. The Institute of Group Analysis established in London in 1971 was the first training institution in Europe offering a qualifying training course in group analysis. In the following years the IGA London trained a number of therapists from many countries who, after completion of the course, established similar centres in their own countries. This trend gave rise to the Group Analysis Institutes in Heidelberg, Athens, Zagreb, Budapest, Kopenhagen, Oslo, Zurich and many other. Growing interest in group analysis trainings and its potential practical applications has led sixteen European training institutions to the establishment of the European Group Analytic Training Institutions Network (E.G.A.T.I.N.) in Oxford in 1987. E.G.A.T.I.N. is a federation of group analysis societies offering training programs covering: own psychotherapy in a group, theory and supervision. The federation has as its goal the establishment of a platform for exchange and dialogue in respect to many aspects of training in group analysis as well as the development and maintainance of the standards of training. The "Rasztów" Group Analytic Institute has been established from the initiative of the Analytic Psychotherapy Centre in Warsaw in 1992. After applying for access to E.G.A.T.I.N. it has been granted introductory membership. In cooperation with the Group Analytic Institute in Heidelberg the most experienced therapists from our Institute together with guests from Vilnius and Prague, started a qualifying course in group analysis at approxiamtely the same time. The course was conducted by Mr Werner Knauss of Heidelberg and Mr Jerzy Pawlik of Warsaw. In 1993 the "Rasztów" Group Analytic Institute initiated independent operation organising its first groups based on the E.G.A.T.I.N. standards. In 2002 "Rasztów" has fulfilled all requirements of a training centre and received Qualifying Membership in E.G.A.T.I.N. |
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