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Responding to Farhad Dalal's question "one group analysis or many?" the author looks at contextual factors of working with groups, claiming that group therapists are different in different groups and adjusting to setting variables. He describes aspects of the "Goettingen Model of Group Psychotherapy". This model offers variability in conducting groups within one theoretical concept. Many aspects (e. g. a marked intersubjective approach and working with an "answering" mode) are close to Dalal's thinking. In contrast to Dalal, however, empirical evidence and evidence based therapies are seen as valuable parts of group psychotherapies and group analysis. Within this conceptual frame, working in and with groups is both - one group analysis and many. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Journal for Individual Psychology plans to announce the topics for its upcoming issues and invites interested authors to submit articles. The topics for the upcoming issues are trauma, failure/negative therapy outcomes, societal topics as a "rescue" of psychoanalysis, and a conference issue for the annual conference of the DGIP 2022. The manuscripts will undergo an anonymous peer review. The journal has a print edition with the ISSN 0342-393X and an online edition with the ISSN 2196-8330. [Extracted from the article]

»This space is so dreary - the kind of place you'd go to if you wanted to hang yourself.« Patient and therapist maneuvering between psychoanalysis, neurology and palliative care The paper is a reflection on the psychotherapeutic treatment of a patient viewed from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, neurology and palliative care. The author discusses the development of these three perspectives, showing how they complement and enrich, but also interfere with each other in the course of treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This short paper starts with a sketch of the current status of biopsychosocial medicine and of the relation between psychoanalysis and science. It claims that these two traditions and concepts in their current state can learn from each other in their shared aim of making subjective experience of patients, a central dimension of human illness and disease, a focal point of of diagnosis and therapy. The book "Mentalizing the body" by Ulrich Schultz-Venrath serves as an important example of this common learning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the relationship between mentalizing theory and psychoanalysis, examining the origins of mentalization-based treatment in traditional psychoanalysis, in particular its compatibility with object relations theory, and areas of divergence, such as the different emphasis upon and management of transference. More recent developments in psychoanalytical thinking and their relationship with MBT are also considered, in particular the emphasis on process in the here and now. The paper finishes with a recognition of the work that remains to be done in relocating and rethinking MBT in relation to psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will begin by thinking about how schools of psychotherapy come to be created, and argue that this is a political process rather than a "scientific", technical or rational one. I describe ways in which practice can at times be unhelpfully rigidified into techniques which are used to build borders between schools. I follow this by a description of how Eliasian gossip is used to reinforce methodological silos. Finally I consider group analysis' relationship to psychoanalysis, science and the medical model in order to try to shed light on the question "one group analysis or many?" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]