Bridge Over Troubled Water

This book is a compilation of papers by different authors, among them Vamik Volkan, Robi Friedman, John Schlapobersky, Haim Weinberg, and Michael Bucholz, with a foreword by Earl Hopper and an introduction by Gila Ofer, both editor and contributor. While most of the writers are group analysts, working in the tradition of Foulkes, several others come from different though complementary perspectives, enriching the theoretical basis of the research. So, there are perspectives, inter alia, from Bion and Cortesao. The writers represent different countries and cultures, focusing on problems that are endemic to their own localities that yet have a wider and deeper resonance. We are introduced to conflict and division in Bedouin society, the Roma people living in Greece, citizens' reflective communities in Serbia, continuing territorial and ideological differences in Israel and the middle-east, and tensions of difference in the psychoanalytic community itself. Series Editors Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Between the Social and the Psyche , Large-group trauma at the hands of the other, transgenerational transmissions, and chosen traumas , Group analysis on war and peace , Processes of Building an Interpersonal Bridge in the Group , Forgiving and non-forgiving in group analysis , Conciliation and comfort: group work with Bedouin grandmothers , Dealing with conflicts, rage, anger, and aggression in group analysis , The Social and the Group , Conflicts and social transference in groups , “Untouchable infant gangs” in group and social matrices as obstacles to reconciliation , The social unconscious and issues of conflict and reconciliation in therapy , Processes of Recommendation in Inter-Groups , Us and them: an object relations approach to understanding the dynamics of inter-groups conflicts , Enemies' love story: reconciliation in the presence of foes , Lines of conflict in psychoanalysis: reconciliation in the future? , Psychoanalytic approaches to conflict resolution: the limits of intersubjective engagement