Haim Weinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4426197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haim Weinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haim |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEINBERG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tmourot Ve'Anashim Institute, Tel-Aviv University and at Beit Berl college, Israel Association of Group Psychotherapy, International Association of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP), American Group-Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7767-7245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Resistances to online group analysis – Is there anything new under the sun
In this article, I explore the common resistances to online group analysis and group therapy and bring arguments to support the use of online settings for analytic groups. The arguments are based on theoretical, practical, experimental and experiential perspectives. Online groups are not supposed to replace in-person meetings and the article advocates an integrative model that benefits from both the online and in-person options. A comparison is m…
Advances in Online Therapy
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
"The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups, and essential for comprehensive clinical work. This series of volumes of contributions from an international network of psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, group analysts and psychodramatists draw on the classical ideas of Freud, Klein and Jung,…
The Paradox of Internet Groups
Response to Richard Billow’s ‘Relational Group Psychotherapy
Impossible Groups that Flourish in Leaking Containers’—Challenging Group Analytic Theory
All group therapy textbooks emphasize the importance of the setting for a successful outcome of the group. This setting includes clear boundaries of time and space, stable participation, and good leadership. All are seen as requirements to create a safe enough environment for participants to work on deep issues. In addition, for its normal development and progress, the group is expected to go through a stormy stage with disagreements and conflict…
Early Mother–Son Relationships, Primary levels of Mental Organization and the Foundation Matrix as Expressed in Fairy Tales
Relying on the idea that fairy tales are part of the foundation matrix, and that the phenomenon of realization of idiomatic expressions (often appearing in fairy tales) helps to reveal the affinity between concrete and metaphoric layers of the mind, this article focuses on the realization of idiomatic expressions found in fairy tales dealing with the earliest mother–son relationships in order to explore the different modes of expression in the so…
Response to Bennett Roth’s (2015) Does the Social Unconscious Have a Gender? Response to Tubert Oklander’s (2014) and Raufman and Weinberg’s (2014) Articles on the Social Unconscious
Two Forms of Blindness in the Social Unconscious as Expressed in Literary Texts
The article discusses aspects of blindness in the social unconscious as reflected in two literary products: fairy tale and short story. The discussion includes analysing the texts themselves and the analysis of a group’s reaction to such text. This examination helps in learning about both the somatic and metaphoric level of the social unconscious. Focusing on a group of Israeli participants, this article presents the functions of blindness in dea…
So What is this Social Unconscious Anyway
Although the concept of the Social Unconscious has increased in importance in the group analytic literature recently, there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings about it and its practical applications. While some papers define the term, there are no papers explaining the basics of the social unconscious and what it includes. The purpose of this article is to address the misconceptions, describe the basic building blocks of the soci…
Special Note by Guest Editors
Trauma Groups
Beginning with a brief review of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, the authors consider the role of group treatment of trauma. Several models of groups are discussed along with available research regarding efficacy. A discussion of the special dynamics of trauma groups and important considerations for group conducting follows and the issue of vicarious traumatization for the group conductor is addressed. A short discussion regarding the …
The Hall of Mirrors in Small, Large and Virtual Groups
Philosophy, literature, mythology and psychoanalysis present the double face of mirroring. In this paper we examine the conditions for benevolent mirroring and the types of destructive one, focusing on the ‘hall of mirrors’ concept of Foulkes and Anthony. We also analyze the possibilities for mirroring in the large group and the virtual environment
The Culture of the Group and Groups from Different Cultures
Culture and groups are intertwined. Culture is essential in crystallizing our social identity and provides the common understandings that allow the social world to have a meaning. Culture is constituted from many groups that have common values. The social unconscious of a certain culture is reflected in groups, especially in large groups. This paper explores different aspects of the social unconscious and describes how the individual and the grou…
Community Unconscious on the Internet
This article examines the group dynamics in a discussion list on the Internet, focusing on the special psychological mechanisms that appear. A discussion list is seen to resemble a large group, and the processes characteristic of the large group are relevant to its study. The transference of the list members towards the moderator and the list as a whole is examined together with the countertransference of the moderator. Some of the dynamics that …
Resistances to online group analysis – Is there anything new under the sun
In this article, I explore the common resistances to online group analysis and group therapy and bring arguments to support the use of online settings for analytic groups. The arguments are based on theoretical, practical, experimental and experiential perspectives. Online groups are not supposed to replace in-person meetings and the article advocates an integrative model that benefits from both the online and in-person options. A comparison is m…
Community Unconscious on the Internet
This article examines the group dynamics in a discussion list on the Internet, focusing on the special psychological mechanisms that appear. A discussion list is seen to resemble a large group, and the processes characteristic of the large group are relevant to its study. The transference of the list members towards the moderator and the list as a whole is examined together with the countertransference of the moderator. Some of the dynamics that …
The Culture of the Group and Groups from Different Cultures
Culture and groups are intertwined. Culture is essential in crystallizing our social identity and provides the common understandings that allow the social world to have a meaning. Culture is constituted from many groups that have common values. The social unconscious of a certain culture is reflected in groups, especially in large groups. This paper explores different aspects of the social unconscious and describes how the individual and the grou…
The Hall of Mirrors in Small, Large and Virtual Groups
Philosophy, literature, mythology and psychoanalysis present the double face of mirroring. In this paper we examine the conditions for benevolent mirroring and the types of destructive one, focusing on the ‘hall of mirrors’ concept of Foulkes and Anthony. We also analyze the possibilities for mirroring in the large group and the virtual environment
Special Note by Guest Editors
Trauma Groups
Beginning with a brief review of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, the authors consider the role of group treatment of trauma. Several models of groups are discussed along with available research regarding efficacy. A discussion of the special dynamics of trauma groups and important considerations for group conducting follows and the issue of vicarious traumatization for the group conductor is addressed. A short discussion regarding the …
So What is this Social Unconscious Anyway
Although the concept of the Social Unconscious has increased in importance in the group analytic literature recently, there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings about it and its practical applications. While some papers define the term, there are no papers explaining the basics of the social unconscious and what it includes. The purpose of this article is to address the misconceptions, describe the basic building blocks of the soci…
Two Forms of Blindness in the Social Unconscious as Expressed in Literary Texts
The article discusses aspects of blindness in the social unconscious as reflected in two literary products: fairy tale and short story. The discussion includes analysing the texts themselves and the analysis of a group’s reaction to such text. This examination helps in learning about both the somatic and metaphoric level of the social unconscious. Focusing on a group of Israeli participants, this article presents the functions of blindness in dea…
Response to Bennett Roth’s (2015) Does the Social Unconscious Have a Gender? Response to Tubert Oklander’s (2014) and Raufman and Weinberg’s (2014) Articles on the Social Unconscious
Impossible Groups that Flourish in Leaking Containers’—Challenging Group Analytic Theory
All group therapy textbooks emphasize the importance of the setting for a successful outcome of the group. This setting includes clear boundaries of time and space, stable participation, and good leadership. All are seen as requirements to create a safe enough environment for participants to work on deep issues. In addition, for its normal development and progress, the group is expected to go through a stormy stage with disagreements and conflict…
Early Mother–Son Relationships, Primary levels of Mental Organization and the Foundation Matrix as Expressed in Fairy Tales
Relying on the idea that fairy tales are part of the foundation matrix, and that the phenomenon of realization of idiomatic expressions (often appearing in fairy tales) helps to reveal the affinity between concrete and metaphoric layers of the mind, this article focuses on the realization of idiomatic expressions found in fairy tales dealing with the earliest mother–son relationships in order to explore the different modes of expression in the so…
Response to Richard Billow’s ‘Relational Group Psychotherapy
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
"The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups, and essential for comprehensive clinical work. This series of volumes of contributions from an international network of psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, group analysts and psychodramatists draw on the classical ideas of Freud, Klein and Jung,…
The Paradox of Internet Groups
Advances in Online Therapy
Resistances to online group analysis – Is there anything new under the sun
In this article, I explore the common resistances to online group analysis and group therapy and bring arguments to support the use of online settings for analytic groups. The arguments are based on theoretical, practical, experimental and experiential perspectives. Online groups are not supposed to replace in-person meetings and the article advocates an integrative model that benefits from both the online and in-person options. A comparison is m…
Psychology (15 works) · Psychoanalysis (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Unconscious mind (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Collective unconscious (4 works) · Group psychotherapy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)