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Group analysis, which emerged from psychoanalysis, gives individuals in a group a frame in which life conflicts become accessible to deliberate recognition and treatment.
Every group member experiences
- how they create and shape contacts within the group’s relationship web,
- which problems and conflicts arise out of this,
- how they affect the group and its climate,
- how anxieties and resistances inside the group are addressed and treated
- and what roles the respective members tend to.
The group analyst takes part in the group process and can thereby
- identify and communicate the unconscious reasons for each member’s experiencing and behaviour,
- use the knowledge of each member’s life story background to explain them the becoming of their conflicts
- and show how these conflicts are experienced again in the group context.
These experiences can help the individual re-organize their relationships and their lives beyond the group context.