I write this post just before my new group begins . We have met only a short while but already it has impacted me. Initially I am the catalyst. I gather the people. I meet with them and take the time needed to to prepare them for the deeply evocative nature of creating group intimacy. […]
Month: April 2010
Death and Love and Creativity
It was originally a simple quest. I was initiating a new group process and in my narrative, inviting those interested in group therapy to consider my new group, as well as providing a context for colleagues to offer appropriate referrals. Not untypical of me, this led me to a much more intricate experience which I […]
What Is Still Becoming
In this post I continue to search for the roots of my current expression as a group psychotherapist. Although my work has been informed by contemporary psychoanalytic theory and Jungian psychology and reinforced with attachment theory and inter- relational dynamics, this eclectic mix was influenced by my training an experience in expressive creativity as […]
Fighting and Making Up WIth Brain Science
In my last post, Organizing The In-effable, I found that my attempt to simply describe my approach to Group Process had led me backwards to search for the roots of my work. This post continues the search. What were these inquiries ? What was the elemental field that I was trying […]
Organizing The Ineffable
It was Passover 1982 in Cambridgeport Massachusetts. I was part of a community of other performing artists and writers. Our desire to provide an eclectic community offering with an open invite for anyone who needed a Passover place to come, was greeted with an extravagant response. Many religions and nationalities and points of view […]