Group Info

As APPCIOS members know so well our organisation’s way of understanding human experience is to see each individual as being inextricably part of the group they are contextualised by. They are in it, and it is in them regardless of the extent to which they feel connected to one another at any one time. In this webinar series our thinking about the individual and the group comes from some of Bion's ideas. Bion saw groups as opportunities for individuals to come together through spontaneous and common emotional reactions to events and phenomena. He understood this coming together or breaking apart as being through the same dynamic mechanisms Melanie Klein discussed as projective identification and the oscillation between the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions. To understand how he saw these dynamics operating - how they are destructive or reparative - we need also to have an understanding of what he meant by the container-contained relationship. This is the fundamental oedipal relationship that, when static and not disturbed by the third object, becomes antithetical to individual development or group functioning.

10 week webinar series running again in the Autumn term

Total cost of webinars £250