Failures in the Development of Potential Space in a Group |
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Authors: | Hilit Erel-Brodsky |
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Institution: | (1) Private Clinic in Kiryat Ono, Kiryat Ono, Israel;(2) Bar Ilan University, Hakeshet 6/19, Kiryat Ono, 55401, Israel |
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Abstract: | In this paper I shall use Winnicott’s concept of potential space to discuss the impasses, which arises when failures occur
in the development of group potential space. Because clinical social work is a service usually provided by public bodies with
limited economic resources, unstable social and political realities are driving many social workers to search for methods
of responding to the needs of many without compromising the quality of the service provided. This requires the acquisition
of increasing knowledge in the field of group therapy, in order to help our clients, who often suffer from disabling conditions,
to become functioning community members. The paper reviews Winnicott’s concept of potential space and Ogden’s formulation
of the psychopathology of potential space, and describes various manifestations of impasses in group work and group development.
Three clinical examples describing therapeutic groups led by clinicians in various public frameworks, are used to illustrate
three different forms of group collapse following a failure in the formation of potential space. A fourth type of collapse
is also discussed.
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Keywords: | Potential space Group Impasses Failure |
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