Art for Foulkes' Sake or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Group. (March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Power, Kevin
• Is Part Of: Group analysis. Volume 49:Number 1(2016:Mar.)
• Page Start: 7
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2016-03
• Subjects: art -- Foulkes -- group-analysis -- communication -- conductor -- power; Group psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; 616.8917
• DOI: 10.1177/0533316415611113
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0533-3164

Abstract

This article addresses the title of the GASI's 15th Symposium in Lisbon, 'Group-Analysis as Art and Science'. It is eclectic and seeks to expose some fallacies in certain areas of practice and theory, and questions the trend towards medico-technological practice rather than valuing group analysis as a creative practice that contains much more for its participants than mere 'recovery'. The underlying argument is that the process-art of the group that the members participate in is the dynamo of change in the group.