Friday, February 26

All-Day Workshops

10:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. & 2:30 - 5:00 P.M.

Workshop 38a

The Median Group

Presented in cooperation with the A.K. Rice Institute and AGPA Large and Median Group and Group Analysis SIG

Chairs:

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D., ABPP, The Fielding Graduate University, Baltimore, Maryland

Dannielle Kennedy, Ph.D., Principal, Nautilus Consulting Group, New York and Boston, Massachusetts

Jeffrey D. Roth, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Medical Director, Working Sobriety Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 

The Median Group offers a context for examining the interface between psychotherapy groups and the organizations that support them. Attention to overt and covert processes demonstrates the dynamics that facilitate or impede members' ability to work on the primary task. Consultants will offer hypotheses about these dynamics as they unfold.

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Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Describe different roles as they emerge in the large group.

2. Identify overt and covert processes that facilitate or impede the group's ability to work on its primary task.

3. Utilize the concepts of boundaries and authority as they relate to large group dynamics.

Course References:

Hopper, E. (2003). The Social Unconscious: Selected papers.  London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Kreeger, L. (1975). (Ed.) The Large Group: Dynamics and Therapy.  London: Constable.

Schneider, S. and Weinberg H. (2003). (Eds.) The Large Group Revisited: The Herd, Primal Horde, Crowds and Masses. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.