Victor L Schermer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4490059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor L Schermer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schermer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERMER V L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Study Group for Contemporary Psychoanalytic Process, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7980-5984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Building empathic bridges: Cross-cultural ‘maternal’ attunement in group psychotherapy for immigrants and refugees
Today, the immigrant population is significantly increasing in many countries, and some therapists are convening groups specifically devoted to them. Therapy with immigrants requires maintaining the emotional connection between persons of different cultures. Since culture is initially transmitted in pre-verbal interactions between mothers and infants, the field of mother-infant research can be utilized to provide models for mutual attunement in g…
Commentary on Jacinta Kent: ‘The Dynamic Foundation: Harnessing Difference within the Matrix’
Four modalities of the experience of others in groups
The ways in which group members experience and interact with one another has been explored in philosophy from Greek antiquity to the present. In modern European philosophy, beginning with the Enlightenment, the problem of ‘the Other’ has been taken up by empirical, idealist, phenomenological and existential philosophers. Based on such philosophical discourse, this article presents a fourfold schema of ‘modalities’ through which people acquire kno…
Commentary in Response to Richard Billow: Relational Group Psychotherapy: An Overview. Part II: Relational Models of Group Process, June 2017
Psychodrama in Perspective: An Interview with Jonathan Moreno on His Father, Jacob Moreno, and the Lasting Impact of His Ideas
Jonathan Moreno’s book entitled Impromptu Man is about his father, Jacob Moreno, the founder of psychodrama and sociometry and covers Moreno’s life and career as well as 20th-century group psychotherapy, group dynamics, film and theatre, the encounter group movement, and social networking, with respect to his role and influence. In this interview, conducted in February 2015, Jonathan Moreno talks about his father in both personal and scholarly te…
Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis
Response to Dieter Nitzgen’s Commentary to Schermer ‘Group-as-a-Whole Theory and Complexity: The Edge of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Emergence in Groups Parts I and II’. Group Analysis, December 201…
Group-as-a-Whole and Complexity Theories: Areas of Convergence. Part I: Background and Literature Review
Complexity theory is a scientific paradigm concerned with the ways in which order and disorder (unpredictability, turbulence, chaos) combine to produce emergent higher levels of organization in living systems. The group-as-a-whole is an instance where interactions among individuals, often at ‘the edge of chaos’, lead to group-qua-group dynamics. The paradigms underlying group psychology and complexity theory are considered. Group theory developed…
Group-as-a-Whole and Complexity Theories: Areas of Convergence. Part II: Application to Group Relations, Group Analysis, and Systems Centered Therapy
Complexity theory is a scientific paradigm concerned with the ways in which order (determinism) and disorder (unpredictability, turbulence, chaos) combine to produce emergent higher levels of organization. The group-as-a-whole is an example of a living system where interactions among individuals, often at ‘the edge of chaos’, lead to group-qua-group dynamics. In Part I (Group Analysis 45(3)), the author considered the respective paradigms underly…
Response to Herzel Yogev: ‘Me–Us: Complex Psychological Variable’—Commentary to Schermer’s ‘Group- as-a-Whole Theory and Complexity: The Edge of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Emergence in Groups Parts…
Reflections on ‘Reflections on Mirroring’
Malcolm Pines’ seminal article, ‘Reflections on Mirroring’ (1982) is discussed in a special journal edition honouring and expanding upon his life work. In ‘Reflections’, Pines elaborates on the mirror as metaphor for human experience using clinical material as well as references to mythology, literature, and natural science. The present author reviews Pines’ commentary on ‘mirroring’ as it bears upon both personal growth and human destructiveness…
Th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Spirituality and Group Analysis
Self-Transformation and the unconscious in contemporary psychoanalytic therapy: The Problem of "Depth" Within a Relational and Intersubjective Frame of Reference
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Self-Transformation and the unconscious in contemporary psychoanalytic therapy: The Problem of "Depth" Within a Relational and Intersubjective Frame of Reference
Th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Spirituality and Group Analysis
Reflections on ‘Reflections on Mirroring’
Malcolm Pines’ seminal article, ‘Reflections on Mirroring’ (1982) is discussed in a special journal edition honouring and expanding upon his life work. In ‘Reflections’, Pines elaborates on the mirror as metaphor for human experience using clinical material as well as references to mythology, literature, and natural science. The present author reviews Pines’ commentary on ‘mirroring’ as it bears upon both personal growth and human destructiveness…
Group-as-a-Whole and Complexity Theories: Areas of Convergence. Part I: Background and Literature Review
Complexity theory is a scientific paradigm concerned with the ways in which order and disorder (unpredictability, turbulence, chaos) combine to produce emergent higher levels of organization in living systems. The group-as-a-whole is an instance where interactions among individuals, often at ‘the edge of chaos’, lead to group-qua-group dynamics. The paradigms underlying group psychology and complexity theory are considered. Group theory developed…
Group-as-a-Whole and Complexity Theories: Areas of Convergence. Part II: Application to Group Relations, Group Analysis, and Systems Centered Therapy
Complexity theory is a scientific paradigm concerned with the ways in which order (determinism) and disorder (unpredictability, turbulence, chaos) combine to produce emergent higher levels of organization. The group-as-a-whole is an example of a living system where interactions among individuals, often at ‘the edge of chaos’, lead to group-qua-group dynamics. In Part I (Group Analysis 45(3)), the author considered the respective paradigms underly…
Response to Herzel Yogev: ‘Me–Us: Complex Psychological Variable’—Commentary to Schermer’s ‘Group- as-a-Whole Theory and Complexity: The Edge of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Emergence in Groups Parts…
Response to Dieter Nitzgen’s Commentary to Schermer ‘Group-as-a-Whole Theory and Complexity: The Edge of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Emergence in Groups Parts I and II’. Group Analysis, December 201…
Meaning, Mind, and Self-Transformation: Psychoanalytic Interpretation and the Interpretation of Psychoanalysis
Psychodrama in Perspective: An Interview with Jonathan Moreno on His Father, Jacob Moreno, and the Lasting Impact of His Ideas
Jonathan Moreno’s book entitled Impromptu Man is about his father, Jacob Moreno, the founder of psychodrama and sociometry and covers Moreno’s life and career as well as 20th-century group psychotherapy, group dynamics, film and theatre, the encounter group movement, and social networking, with respect to his role and influence. In this interview, conducted in February 2015, Jonathan Moreno talks about his father in both personal and scholarly te…
Commentary in Response to Richard Billow: Relational Group Psychotherapy: An Overview. Part II: Relational Models of Group Process, June 2017
Four modalities of the experience of others in groups
The ways in which group members experience and interact with one another has been explored in philosophy from Greek antiquity to the present. In modern European philosophy, beginning with the Enlightenment, the problem of ‘the Other’ has been taken up by empirical, idealist, phenomenological and existential philosophers. Based on such philosophical discourse, this article presents a fourfold schema of ‘modalities’ through which people acquire kno…
Commentary on Jacinta Kent: ‘The Dynamic Foundation: Harnessing Difference within the Matrix’
Building empathic bridges: Cross-cultural ‘maternal’ attunement in group psychotherapy for immigrants and refugees
Today, the immigrant population is significantly increasing in many countries, and some therapists are convening groups specifically devoted to them. Therapy with immigrants requires maintaining the emotional connection between persons of different cultures. Since culture is initially transmitted in pre-verbal interactions between mothers and infants, the field of mother-infant research can be utilized to provide models for mutual attunement in g…
Psychology (11 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Group analysis (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Edge of chaos (4 works)