Group Analytic Society
The Group Analytic Society ( Society of Group Analysis, London) was founded in 1952 by SH Foulkes, Jane Abercrombie, James Anthony, Patrick DeMare, Norbert Elias, Hon WHR Iliffe and ET Marx as a non-profit association that the development of group analysis in both the clinical should explore and promote as well as in the outpatient setting. Getting regular seminars were held by Foulkes himself in 1952. Members of society came from different countries and different disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, medicine, nursing, social work, counseling, education, business, architecture, anthropology and theology.
The Society is non-profit and not -for-profit. She regularly organizes scientific conferences, workshops and a conference every three years in a European metropolis. The highlight of the company activities is the Annual SHFoulkes Lecture, held by an outstanding group analyst in London. Since 1977, every year such a keynote speech in London organized for a wider audience and then published in the journal Group Analysis. Currently serves as President Robi Friedman ( Israel). His predecessor was 2005-2011 Gerda winter from Denmark.
Michael Hayne, Alice Ricciardi and Josef Shaked, all members of the Group Analysis Society, who in 1976 set up in a Altausee held twice yearly self-awareness and training workshop. Today, this is organized by the International Association for Group Analysis.
Background
After the Second World War, and after the treatment experiments on soldiers in therapeutic groups in Northfield Hospital near Birmingham, a circle of colleagues met regularly at Foulkes, in order to deepen the understanding of group therapy and to discuss applications.
" The small group of friends and interested people who met every weekend in our house ... that was in fact the pioneer of the Group Analytic Society. The same group, extended by international visitors ( Slavson was one of them ), also served as an official group at the International Congress of Mental Health, which was held in London in 1948. That was the birth of the World Federation of Mental Health. "
1971, leading members of the Society, the Institute of Group Analysis, which is characterized generally responsible for training, including a special qualification, which is a prerequisite for membership in the Institute today. Courses are offered in various centers in the UK, in continental Europe, but in close consultation with the London Institute. The Society for Group Analysis publishes the journal Group Analysis, published by Sage. Foulkes himself was the first editor until 1975, the function of its co-founder Patrick de Maré handed. At the time of Foulkes and de Maré, it was a quite casual and cool publication, with many correspondents. Today, however, the magazine carries a strictly academic appearance.
The Newsletter Group Analytic Contexts is a direct successor of Group Analysis International Panel and Correspondence ( GAIPAC ), which was founded in 1967 also published by Foulkes, to build an international network. This newsletter eventually became the official organ of the company, according to Foulkes ' death his widow Elizabeth Foulkes, the function of the Issuer. Today, communication is increasingly carried out electronically. In addition, the company offers a range of networking opportunities, contact people in numerous countries and a library its members. Scientific conferences, numerous workshops and an annual spring meeting will be held in London, and every three years an international conference. The Company is cooperating with the European Association for Transcultural Group Analysis ( EATGA ), the International Association of Group Psychotherapy ( IAGP ) and the American Group Psychotherapy Association ( AGPA ).