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12: From Parties to Projective Identification: Why is Group Life so Hard? feat. Christine Smallwood

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Role of Anxiety in a Group

In a group, these kinds of psychotic energies are just always in play. And that's why we have to, and the basic assumptions exist as defenses so that we don't have to deal with that anxiety that's in play. There are ways of working through it, right? So like, channeling it almost. But but for being specifically, the idea here is that what's happening in the group, like the, the sudden shifts in roles in in patterns of orientation or dependency or pairing or whatever,. These are being communicated on the level of something other than what's verbally given.

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