Welcome to GASWs Foundation in Group Analysis. A copy of the welcome letter from your tutors can be downloaded here
The Programme of the entire year can be downloaded here
Guidelines for working online can be downloaded here
Course reading for each week can be downloaded from the relevant week in the table below.
Term One programme and reading, Oct to Dec 2022
| Date | Programme | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-course | Pre-course reading: Authenticity and Belonging: The Experience of Being Known in the Group (Menzies & Davidson) | Pre-course reading |
| 10th Oct | Welcome and Introduction to the course. Discussion based on the pre-course reading | N/a |
| 17th Oct | The Social and cultural basis of group analysis: A century of Group Analysis (Behr & Hearst) | Social/cultural basis of Group Century of GA |
| 24th October | Some basic concepts in Group Psychotherapy (Foulkes) | Concepts in group psychotherapy |
| 31st October | ‘Foulkes’ concerpt of the Matrix (Roberts) and The Group as Matrix (Foulkes) | Concept of the Matrix The Group as Matrix |
| 7th November | Aspects of Transference in Groups (Marrone) Transference and Countertransference in Group Psychotherapy (Kreeger) | Transference in group analysis Transference and countertransference |
| 14th November | On Projective Identification (Ogden) | Projective Identification |
| 21st November | A contribution to the Understanding of the Social Unconscious (Brown) | The Social Unconscious |
| 28th November | Scapegoating in Group Psychotherapy (Moreno) | Scapegoating in Group Psychotherapy |
| 5th December | The Study of Groups (Bion) | The Study of Groups |
| 12th December | Groups in the social context | Moving beyond stigma Whiteness & GAM |
Term Two programme and reading, January – March 2023
| Date | Programme | Downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 9th January Lecture | Online Group Therapy – In Search of a new Theory? (Weinberg) | Online Group Therapy |
| 16th January Seminar | Developmental stages in Groups (Norman Vella) | Developmental phases |
| 23rd January Seminar | Differences in Groups: Hetrogeneity and Homogeneity (Barnes, Ernst, Hyde) | Differences in Groups |
| 30th January Lecture | Reflective Practice Groups- A Hall of Mirrors by Sue Einhorn | Reflective Practice Groups |
| 6th February Seminar | Group-Analysis: Taking the Non-Problem Seriously (Garland) | Taking the non-problem seriously |
| 13th February | Half-Term Break | |
| 20th February Seminar | Oedipal and Sibling Dynamics in Organisations (Wilke) | Oedipal and Sibling Dynamics in organisations |
| 27th February | Silencing, power and racial trauma in groups (Kinouani) | Silencing, power and racial trauma in groups |
| 6th March Lecture | Endings in Groups | Endings Seminar |
| 13th March Seminar | The Functioning of Social Systems (Lyth) | Functioning of Social Systems |
| 20th March Seminar | Review of theoretical seminars, lectures, and papers | N/a |