Group Analysis December 1994 [antikvár]

Group-Analytic Society (London) Spring Weekend 13-15 May 1994 Foulkes Lecture: Chairman's Introductory Remarks (abridged version) Bryan Boswood We are tonight to hear the 18th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture. We share, once again, an opportunity to remember the life, the work, and the far-reaching influence of Dr Foulkes. Dr Foulkes began his work as a group psychotherapist with small groups of patients early in the Second World War. The exigencies of the war took him, as a military psychiatrist, to Northfield Hospital near Birmingham (now again Hollymoor Hospital, as it was before the war) where large numbers of military personnel, suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic syndrome, were treated. He was there involved in the establish-ment of the very first Therapeutic Community, under the leadership of Dr Tom Main, within which 'the social setting of the institution was deliberately organized to promote psychological treatment'. (Dr Main presented the very first S.H. Foulkes | , , Lecture, in 1977, shortly after Dr Foulkes's death. His title was i , 'The Concept of the Therapeutic Community: Variations and ; ' Vicissitudes'.) i/, i Dr Foulkes's primary interest remained in work with small i groups, but he was nevertheless very open to the therapeutic use . ¦ of larger groups, and of whole communities. In his book Group [ Y i Psychotherapy, which he published with Dr James Anthony in j i; 1957, he wrote: i j It can be envisaged that the group technique will eventually involve (in therapy) 1 ] the whole community. It will bring neurosis back where it really belongs 'l for such problems . . . concern the whole community. . . . The application !| r Group Analysis (SAGE, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), Vol. 27 (1994), 355-357