Patrick DeMare

Patrick Baltzar DeMare also: de Maré (* 1916 in London, † February 17, 2008 same place ) was a British psychiatrist, a pioneer of group psychoanalysis and one of the first therapists to experiment with large groups. He is one of the founders of the Group Analytic Society and held the 1985 Foulkes Lecture.

Life and work

Patrick DeMare is of Swedish descent and attended the St Cyprian 's School, Wellington College, and Peterhouse, Cambridge. The Faculty of Medicine St George's, University of London, he studied medicine and graduated in 1941 from. In 1942 he took part in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was ' Rickman and Wilfred Bion formed in Northfield Hospital to the military psychiatrist. He was inducted into the so-called Exhaustion Centres throughout Europe. Finally, he returned to Northfield Hospital, where he worked on the second Northfield experiment with SH Foulkes and Tom Main.

After the Second World War he was psychotherapeutic consultant at St George 's Hospital. In 1952 he founded - together with SH Foulkes, Jane Abercrombie, James Anthony, Norbert Elias, Hon WHR Iliffe and ET Marx - the Group Analytic Society ( GAS ), a few years later he was the building of the Institute of Group Analysis and the Group Analytic Practice involved.

In 1972, he published the standard work Perspectives in Group Psychotherapy and 1974 - together with Lionel Kreeger - the Introduction to Group Treatment in Psychiatry. This book was dedicated to the patients and the staff of Halliwick Hospital. In 1975, he began working at the Institute of Group Analysis with a large group, in support of it, Robin Piper. The number of participants in this group eventually leveled off to 20 participants and was then ' median group' called. In 1984, he initiated a weekly seminar on the large group, which in 1986 was recognized as a large group section of the GAS and institutionalized. The American quantum physicist David Bohm went to De Mare in therapy and was greatly influenced by him.

1985 DeMare was invited to hold Foulkes Lecture, a public lecture of the Group Analytic Society, are invited to the only outstanding representative of the subject. He presented his speech under the title: Large Group Perspectives DeMare was firmly convinced that the large group opens the way from hatred to dialogue and published in 1991, the corresponding book on the theory: Koinonia. Towards the end of his life DeMare was increasingly facing spirituality and esotericism. He died at the age of 92 years in London.

Important publications

By Patrick DeMare

  • Perspectives in Group Psychotherapy, Allen & Unwin 1972
  • (together with Lionel Kreeger ): Introduction to Group Treatment in Psychiatry, Butterworth 1974
  • Koinonia: From Hate through Dialogue to Culture in the Larger Group. Karnac Books 1991
  • ( together with Roberto Schollnberger ): A Case for Mind Group Analysis 37 (2003 ), 3

About Patrick DeMare

  • Lyndon, B. ( 2000). The telos of Patrick de Maré: A Survey of Ideas and Implications. Group Analysis 33 (2000): 119-141
  • Pines, Malcom: Shepherding Group Analysis: Shepherd's Past, Present and Future. Group 24 (2000 ), 1: 49-57
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