THE CONCEPT OF RESISTANCE IN THE GROUP-ANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY:

RETHINKING A PATH

Abstract

The author looks at resistance in group, based on the
work of Siegmund Heinrich Foulkes, founder of Group-Analytic Psychotherapy.
Foulkes used concepts of Gestalt Psychology, and Field Theory
to make understood the process of change in his group, although these
references were not clear in his work, perhaps due to the epistemological
difficulty which he encountered in combining psychoanalysis and these
theories. The author follows in the foot-steps of Foulkes and develops,
beginning with concepts of here and now, and figure and ground a different
vision in the Foulkesian perspective, initiated by him, but not developed.
Foulkes also has a phenomenological language which the author attemps
to explore.