The Dialogues in and of the Group: Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group

The New International Library of Group Analysis

by Macario Giraldo

This book presents a number of perspectives using central Lacanian concepts to invite the clinician into a different reading of the group therapy phenomena. It is intended to group therapists to take the challenge and begin to wrestle with Lacanian concepts as they look at the group.

Genres: Psychoanalysis

126 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2012

Reviews

[Shulamith Farhi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Giraldo convincingly makes the case that Lacanian concepts yield fruitful results in group settings. The distinction between dialogues in and of the group is helpful, and the clarification of the dynamics of alienation and separation unpacks these difficult notions with vivid case studies. The highlight of the book comes in Giraldo's Hegelian claim that group work "addresses the mind, spirit or soul of our patients" -- this is promising, pointing towards a renegotiation of the Lacan/Hegel problematic attentive to the "I that is We and the We that is I."