Group Analytic Training and the Social Context

Who is influencing Whom

Bibliographic Data

ID14775012
AuthorsFarhad Dalal (0000-0002-5428-8690, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume48
Issue3
Pages349-367
Publication date2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGroup Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0533-3164 • E-ISSN: 1461-717X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0533316415600624
OpenAlexW1909338700
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

This article inquires into the group analyst’s capacity to influence the social sphere. To this end, I begin by introducing the principles of ‘managerialism’, or ‘New Public Management’, as this is the norm that currently prevails in the social sphere. This is followed by a critical excursion into the values of classical psychoanalysis, which I argue continues to prevail within group analysis. Next, I critically reflect on contemporary group analytic trainings in the light of these two ways of thinking, managerialism and the analytic orthodoxy. I conclude that there is a real danger that group analytic trainings concede to and imbibe bureaucratic managerialist norms, producing group analysts who are more likely to be deferential to established authorities rather than being able to question and challenge them

Antipathy · Bureaucracy · Consciousness · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Managerialism · Norm (philosophy · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Theology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Public Administration · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy

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