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The group analytic situation forms part of a constructive process of interaction which the group as a group is able to build up; the system of interaction in turn becomes a structural network. Foulkes’ concept of a basic network is particularly useful here. The group, by the mere fact of its members meeting together in a given place, at a set time and for a pre-determined period, approaches an ordered system — one which may be formally organised to a greater or a lesser degree — whereby “disorganisation”, confusion and chaos may be contained, reconstructed and reorganised
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In another group of psychotics, one of the patients, a schizophrenic, felt himself to be a chest of drawers, like one of those in a painting by Dali.
To be inside another rather than with them is characteristic of the mechanism of projective identification as described by Melanie Klein.
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Resnik, S. (1982). The Group as a Hospital. In: Pines, M., Rafaelsen, L. (eds) The Individual and the Group. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8154-9_28
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