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1. International Congress: "Median Group - Patrick de Maré's Contribution To Mental Health - Reclaiming the Mind" (June 18-19, 2010: Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)

International Congress
"Median Group - Patrick de Maré's Contribution To Mental Health - Reclaiming the Mind"

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Sponsor: Associazione Gruppoanalitica / Gruppenanalytischer Verein, (Group Analytic Association)

June 18-19, 2010
Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

The Median Group® constitutes the most important development of Foulkes' ideas applied to a wider group context. To this, Patrick de Maré has given an absolutely personal and original imprint. In the last part of his book Perspectives in Group Psychotherapy: A Theoretical Background, 1972, speaking of the third stage of the evolution of a closed small group, pre-genital archaic stage, family stage, social stage, de Maré concludes that not only the outcome of a neurosis, but the destiny of our entire civilization necessarily depends on the ability to achieve fellowship or Koinonia.

The Median Group® is a 15–30 member setting, in the clinic 17: it is small enough to personally know each other and large enough to be a social dimension; allows the cultivation of the single mind related to other minds; through dialogue, the authentic communication on the level, not free association, which favours regression makes disentangling dualities easier such as personal conscious/unconscious and social conscious/unconscious, it favours the lateralisation of thinking, the activation of both hemispheres and the creativity in the signification: the same thing seen from another perspective.

Rather than insight, it favours the outsight, there takes place transposition more than translation, the mirroring of culture on the single who unconsciously produces it. Being a social setting allows the emancipation from the hierarchical familo centric and tribal culture to a democratic social culture, equivalent to an ego training in action and to an individuation process.

The Median Group® is a socio therapy with the aim to reclaim the mind itself and her functions when obsessed, destructive, fused or confuse

Program:

• Greetings and Introduction
  • Andreas Conca
  • Roberto Schöllberger, BPsych, Bolzano, Italy; President, Associazione Gruppoanalitica/Gruppenanalytischer Verein
  • Richard Theiner, Assessor of Health, Province of Bolzano
• Round table
  • Dieter Nitzgen, MA, Training Group Analyst and Supervisor, IGA Heidelberg; Training Group Analyst and Supervisor, German Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Dynamics [DAGG], Germany (chair)
• From Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis
  • Eduard Klain, MD, DSc, Professor of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb; President, Croatian Institute of group Analysis, Croatia
• Large, Small and Median Group in Group Analysis
  • Rocco Pisani, Italy, Vice-president, Associazione Gruppoanalitica/Gruppenanalytischer Verein
• Motivating Membership of the Median Group
  • Cynthia Rogers, London
• The Median Group: How to Assess the Dialogue
  • Nicolas Coutts, London
• Median Group Session
  • Rocco Pisani [see above]
  • Roberto Schöllberger [see above]
  • Dieter Nitzgen [see above]
  • Helen Schick, London
  • Eduard Klain [see above]
  • David Parsons, London
  • Nicolas Coutts [see above]
  • Cynthia Rogers [see above]
  • Robi Freidman, Past President, Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy; Co-founder, Israeli Institute of Group Analysis; Member, Board, International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes [IAGP]; Member, Management Committee, Group Analytic Society, Israel
• Introduction
  • Renato De Polo, COIRAG, Italy
• Round table
  • Eduard Klain [see above] (chair)
• From Social Alienation to Mental Health through Koinonia via Median Group
  • Helen Schick [see above]
• The A-dicted Mind. Long Term Large Group Experience in a Rehabilitation Centre for Addictive Disorders
  • Dieter Nitzgen [see above]
• Group Therapy as Optimal Indication
  • Robi Friedman [see above]
• Median Group Dialogue in Prisons and the Community – Effective Work Towards Re-integrating Society in an Often Toxic Environment
  • David Parsons [see above]
• Large Group and conclusion
  • Roberto Schöllberger [see above]
• Freud , Southtyrol and the Primal Horde - "Totem and Taboo" (1911) written at the hotel Bemelmans Post
  • Francesco Marchioro, IMAGO

Event Contact:

Vanda Toso

+39/04/71909800

vanda.toso@asbz.it

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