Group Analysis 4 December 1990 [antikvár]

Special ScctionBlock Training in Group AnalysisGuest Editors: Harold Behr and Lisbeth E. Hearst'1 his special issue ot the journal looks at the concept of block training in group analysis. The idea of running training programmes in blocks of several consecutivc clays, widely separated from each other by periods of weeks or months, grew out of a need and has become a reality which would seem to have intrinsic value as a psychotherapy training model.The need derived from the fact that London originally provided the only available training resource in Foulkesian group analysis. It was here that Foulkes established a training institute and cultivated a network of group analysts interested in teaching, some of whom retained strong affiliations with like-minded colleagues elsewhere in Europe. I'rospectivc group analysts camc to London to train and returned to lay the foundations for other group-analytic training centres. The wish to import group-analytic skills from London gave rise to various embryonic courses and training events, which grew into the current extensive and highly organized block training schemes. Each scheme developed differently and took t)n the colouring of the environment in which it took root.In this issue, Vcronika Miinz-I lerzog draws on the experience gained as a participant in the Seminar for (Jroup Analysis, Zurich (SCiAZ). She looks at the social aspect of time, and emphasizes the dynamic consequences for psychoanalysis and group analysis of the changed time-scale and rhythm of the block setting. Miinz-Herzog regards the block training as an acceptable response to our changing lifestyle and work habits and our increased mobility. She looks at some of the modifications the altered time-rhythms require. Steinar Lorentzen brings a personal perspective to bear on the Norwegian group-analytic training programme, and on the multiple rőles conferred on trainees who at one and the same time may have to be(!ri)iii> Analysis (SAiili, l.oiulon, Ncwhury Park ;incl New Delhi), Vol. 2.^ (IWO), IW 340