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GROUP ANALYSIS
WORKING WITH STAFF, TEAMS
AND ORGANIZATIONS
EDITED BY ALEKSANDRA NOVAKOVIC AND DAVID VINCENT
Group Analysis: Working with Staff,
Teams and Organizations
Featuring contributions from a range of organizational contexts, G roup Analysis:
Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations identifies the key features to group
analytic practice as well as how different theoretical orientations, such as Systemic
and Tavistock Consultancy approaches, can be incorporated into the process.
The book addresses two essential features of group analysis: the exploration of
unconscious dynamics in groups, and the shifts of observational attention between
the group as a whole, the individual in the group, and the group in the individual.
Including perspectives from both organizational consultancy and refl ective practice,
chapters feature analysis with groups and subgroups in a range of settings, including
a forensic psychiatric hospital, a children’s hospice, an Anglican religious community
and the management team of a global organization.
Group Analysis: Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations is a major
contribution to the developing literature on group analysis. It will be of great interest
to psychotherapists, organizational consultants, facilitators of refl ective practice
groups, coaches, trainees in these disciplines, and any professionals who work with
staff, teams, and organizations.
Aleksandra Novakovic is a psychoanalyst and group analyst. She was a Consultant
Clinical Psychologist in the Adult Psychology Service, and Joint Head of the
Inpatient & Community Psychology Service, Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental
Health Trust. She has worked at Tavistock Relationships and on the IGA Diploma
Course in Reflective Practice in Organisations. Currently she teaches for the British
Psychoanalytic Association and is a Consultant Visiting Lecturer and supervisor at
Tavistock Relationships. She edited C ouple Dynamics (Karnac, 2015), and co-edited
Couple Stories with Marguerite Reid (Routledge, 2018).
David Vincent trained as a group analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis, and as
a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the British Association of Psychotherapists. He
is an IPT therapist and supervisor, and worked for many years in the NHS, retiring
as a Consultant Adult Psychotherapist from Forest House Psychotherapy Clinic. He
has also worked for University College Hospital Drug Dependence Unit, MEDNET
and Camden Psychotherapy Unit, and in private practice. He was Chair of the IGA
from 2000–2005, and Chair of Ethics for the British Psychoanalytic Council from
2012–2016, and is now a retired member of the IGA and the BPF.
The New International Library of Group Analysis (NILGA)
Series Editor: Earl Hopper
Drawing on the seminal ideas of British, European and American group analysts,
psychoanalysts, social psychologists and social scientists, the books in this series
focus on the study of small and large groups, organisations and other social systems,
and on the study of the transpersonal and transgenerational sociality of human nature.
NILGA books will be required reading for the members of professional organisations
in the fi eld of group analysis, psychoanalysis, and related social sciences. They will
be indispensable for the “formation” of students of psychotherapy, whether they
are mainly interested in clinical work with patients or in consultancy to teams and
organisational clients within the private and public sectors.
Recent titles in the series include:
The Art and Science of Working Together
Practising Group Analysis in Teams and Organisations
Edited by Christine Thornton
Dream Telling, Relations, and Large Groups
New Developments in Group Analysis
By Robi Friedman
Group Analysis
Working with Staff, Teams and Organizations
Edited by David Vincent and Aleksandra Novakovic
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies
Volume 3: The Foundation Matrix Extended and Re-configured
Edited by Earl Hopper
Fairy Tales and the Social Unconscious
The Hidden Language
By Ravit Raufman and Haim Weinberg
For more information about this series, please visit www.routledge.com
Group Analysis
Working with Staff, Teams
and Organizations
Edited by
Aleksandra Novakovic and
David Vincent
First published 2019
by Routledge
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Contents
Series editor’s preface xi
Notes on editors and contributors xiii
Introduction 1
PART I
1 Tavistock consultancy approaches, systemic practice
and the group analytic approach in work with staff,
staff teams and organizations 9
Tavistock approaches to consulting with teams
and organizations 10
RICHARD MORGAN-JONES
Systemic practice to work with staff, teams and organizations 24
MARTIN MIKSITS
A group analytic approach to work with staff teams
and organizations: a contextual framework 37
CHRISTINE OLIVER
Commentary on systemic, Tavistock and group
analytic approaches 49
CHRISTINE OLIVER
2 Tavistock consultancy, systems centred and group
analytic perspectives on a community meeting on
an acute psychiatric ward 62
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Commentary I: Tavistock consultancy perspective 66
JULIAN LOUSADA
Commentary II: Systems-Centered ® consultancy perspective 71
RAY HADDOCK
Commentary III: A group analytic perspective 77
DAVID KENNARD
PART II
3 “How did you get here from there?”: psychosis, stigma
and the counter transference 85
DAVID VINCENT
4 Working between worlds of experience 97
PETER WILSON
5 What makes a staff support group (un)safe 113
DAVID KENNARD
6 Consulting to doctors in general practice: “Don’t talk
to me about work” 128
CYNTHIA ROGERS
7 Refl ective practice groups – a hall of mirrors 141
SUE EINHORN
8 Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable: refl ective
practice in anxious times 150
IAN SIMPSON
9 Resistance to refl ective practice – an anti-group perspective 166
MORRIS NITSUN
10 Discovering the unconscious patterns of a national culture
through a large group of psychotherapists and group
analysts in Finland: an application of group analysis
in an organizational context 183
GERHARD WILKE
Contents ix
PART III
11 The group as a whole, the individual in the group
and the group in the individual 199
ALEKSANDRA NOVAKOVIC
Index 223
