Two hosts discuss the key points of a paper by Mark Kinet in the Dutch Journal of Group Dynamics and Group Psychotherapy
Why do groups sometimes become irrational? Why do workplaces suddenly descend into dependency, conflict, or panic? And why do the same unconscious patterns seem to repeat across families, organisations, politics, and psychotherapy?
Drawing on Freud, Bion, Lacan, attachment theory, neuropsychoanalysis, and contemporary clinical thinking, Mark Kinet presents the unconscious not as a hidden place but as something that continually unfolds between people. Early relationships shape the mental code through which we later experience authority, intimacy, conflict, and belonging.
This episode explores the architecture of the unconscious, the formative influence of the primary group, Bion's basic assumptions, transference, projective identification, and the unique role of psychoanalytic group therapy. Rather than viewing groups merely as collections of individuals, it shows how they become living stages on which unconscious histories are replayed, recognised, and, at times, transformed.
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Current Psychoanalysis brings together more than 35 books and other writings by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet. Each episode explores how unconscious meaning, personal history, and the therapeutic relationship illuminate psychiatry, psychotherapy, and culture. Two virtual hosts discuss carefully selected texts, translating complex psychoanalytic ideas into clear, engaging conversations while remaining remarkably faithful to the original work.
For clinicians, students, and anyone curious about the human mind.
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