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Enhancing Our Individual and Group Life
January 24, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Back Classroom
Continuing Education (CE)
2021-22 — Mondays, 7:30-9:00pm
Ann De Lancey, PhD
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January 24, 2022 — Basic Assumptions and Unconscious Processes in Groups
[25 pages]
The Rioch and Bion are classic papers. Rioch can be a beautiful writer. Her paper, “All we like sheep – (Isaiah 53:6): Followers and leaders, Psychiatry, 34, 258-273 is one of my all-time favorite articles. I have chosen the Rioch paper on Bion because of her ability to riff on his ideas about basic assumption groups. The Long paper focuses on the concept of social defenses.
Objectives
- Explain what Bion means by the terms work group and basic assumption group and their connections to the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions.
- Name several social defenses and begin to think about your own unconscious social defenses
Rioch, M.J. (1975). The work of Wilfred Bion on groups. In Colman, A.D.; Bexton, W.H. (Eds.), Group Relations Reader (1st ed., pp21-33). Portland: A.K. Rice Institute.
Long, S. (2019). The unconscious won’t go away – especially in organizations. Organisational & Social Dynamics 19(2) pp218-229.
Total pages: 23
Optional Reading
Bion, W.R. (1975). Selections from experiences in groups. In Colman, A.D. & Bexton, W.H. (Eds.), Group relations reader(1st ed., pp. 11-20). Portland: A. K. Rice Institute.
