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Institute for Group Analysis “S.H. Foulkes”

(Athens – Greece)

The Institute of Group Analysis “S.H. Foulkes” (Athens), founded in June 2016, is dedicated to advancing scientific development, research, and training in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy.

IOAF aims to promote diverse applications of Group Analysis and Group-Analytic Psychotherapy across clinical, institutional, and organizational, settings.

We believe that the foundation of Group Analysis, pioneered by German psychoanalyst S.H. Foulkes (Sigmund Heinrich Fuchs as known in Germany), is rooted in Freud’s Psychoanalysis, Norbert Elias’s Sociology, and Kurt Goldstein’s Neurology.

Group Analysis

Group Analysis integrates further reference theories, such as Figurational Sociology, General Systems Theory, and more recent Psychoanalytic frameworks, including Object Relations and Intersubjectivity theories, as well as Neuroscience. It conceptualizes the intrapsychic, interpersonal, social, intersubjective, collective, and ultimately, the group as interconnected elements and aspects (or abstractions) of the broader human experience in which we are all embedded.
Drawing insights from Social Psychology, Group Dynamics, and Anthropology, Group Analysis views the human psyche as shaped by a multitude of conscious and unconscious, personal and collective elements. Mental health issues are regarded as disruptions in a person’s intricate network of internal and external communications. Through this lens, Group Analysis seeks to restore the individual’s relational balance by engaging the therapeutic potential of the group.

Group Analysis

Group Analysis integrates further reference theories, such as Figurational Sociology, General Systems Theory, and more recent Psychoanalytic frameworks, including Object Relations and Intersubjectivity theories, as well as Neuroscience. It conceptualizes the intrapsychic, interpersonal, social, intersubjective, collective, and ultimately, the group as interconnected elements and aspects (or abstractions) of the broader human experience in which we are all embedded.
Drawing insights from Social Psychology, Group Dynamics, and Anthropology, Group Analysis views the human psyche as shaped by a multitude of conscious and unconscious, personal and collective elements. Mental health issues are regarded as disruptions in a person’s intricate network of internal and external communications. Through this lens, Group Analysis seeks to restore the individual’s relational balance by engaging the therapeutic potential of the group.

Training in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

The training program is designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and professionals in mental health and related fields.

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Group Supervision

Supervision in a group setting for individual or group clinical work.

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Low Cost Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

IOAF provides the opportunity for Group Psychotherapy by Training Group Analysts under supervision.

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Introductory Seminar in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

The Seminar’s objective is to familiarize participants with the Group-Analytic theory through lectures and discussions and with its clinical application through participation in small and medium group experiences.

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The training program is designed for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and professionals in mental health and related fields.

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Link to: Εκπαίδευση στην Ομαδική Ανάλυση

Training in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

Link to: Ομαδικές Εποπτείες

Group
Supervision

Supervision in a group setting for individual or group clinical work.

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IOAF provides the opportunity for Group Psychotherapy by Training Group Analysts under supervision.

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Link to: Ομαδική Ψυχοθεραπεία Χαμηλού Κόστους

Low Cost Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

Link to: Εισαγωγικό Σεμινάριο

Introductory Seminar in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

The Seminar’s objective is to familiarize participants with the Group-Analytic theory through lectures and discussions and with its clinical application through participation in small and medium group experiences.

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What is Group Analysis?

BACKGROUND

A method focused on the relationship between individuals in groups, considering the separation of the individual and the social as inconceivable. It uses the intersubjective interactions of members within the multi-person communication network in the group (matrix) as a framework for understanding.

METHOD

It focuses on transference and unconscious manifestations of the psyche as key points for interpretation, both on an individual and group level.

OBJECTIVE

Aims at the development of individuals.

APPLICATIONS

It is applied in various fields of human relations, such as in therapeutic hospital settings, education, counselling and organizations.

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Informational Video

The History and Basic Principles of Group Analysis

(video in English)

First of three lectures by S. H. Foulkes the founder of group analysis. They were recorded in 1971 in London in a private setting. The lectures are provided and restored through the courtesy of Werner Beck (Darmstadt) and Sebastian Murken (Mainz). The project is sponsered by the Institut for Groupanalysis, Heidelberg, Germany (IGH), the German Society for Groupanalysis and Grouppsychotherapy (D3G), the Group Analytic Society International (GASi) and the Institut of Group Analysis, London (IGA).

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Informational Video

The History and Basic Principles of Group Analysis

(video in English)

First of three lectures by S. H. Foulkes the founder of group analysis. They were recorded in 1971 in London in a private setting. The lectures are provided and restored through the courtesy of Werner Beck (Darmstadt) and Sebastian Murken (Mainz). The project is sponsered by the Institut for Groupanalysis, Heidelberg, Germany (IGH), the German Society for Groupanalysis and Grouppsychotherapy (D3G), the Group Analytic Society International (GASi) and the Institut of Group Analysis, London (IGA).

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Lectures

Open Lecture on: The Collective Trauma: An Intergenerational Element of Identity – 12 January 2019

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Open Lecture on “Meeting of Individual and Group”

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Events

Second Group – Analytical Symposium of Ancient Dodona

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First Group Analytic Symposium in Ancient Dodona

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Bulletins

7th Bulletin IOAF December 2023

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2023 is passing away. The New Year is coming. In IOAF already, after the General Assembly and the Elections, we have a new Board of Directors.

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6th Bulletin IOAF July 2023

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Although we live in an era where the search for success, joy, happiness and health are widely promoted as a personal and social end in itself “Illness and the consequent fear of death run through all times and all human societies… “

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