Dreamtelling, Relations, and Large Groups

Robi Friedman is an experienced group analyst and clinician specializing in conflict resolution, and in this important collection of his work, he presents his most innovative concepts. Dreamtelling is an original approach to the sharing of dreams with partners or within families, exploring how the dreamer's unconscious messages can be communicated, and helping to contain emotional difficulties. The book also explains Friedman's concept relation disorders, which locates dysfunctional behavioural patterns not within intrapsychic issues, but rather as a function of dynamics in group relations. And finally, the book presents the soldier's matrix, a method for conceptualizing processes in highly stressed organizations and societies which are either under existential threat or pursuing glory. In the process of becoming a soldier's matrix, subgroups and nations progressively lose shame, guilt and empathy towards perceived enemies and the Other, and every society member embraces a selfless role. Applying this method to training in groups provides an optimal way out of organizational and national crisis. The book will be of great interest to group analysts. It will also appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists with an interest in conflict resolution.

Robi Friedman, Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and emigrated to Israel at the age of thirteen. He has a private practice in Haifa, Israel; was the co-founder of and teacher at the Israel Institute for Group Analysis; and is the past president of the International Group Analytic Society.

Series Editor Foreword by Earl Hopper General Introduction PART ONE: Dreams and dreamers in relation and some research on Dreamtelling in families. Introduction to Part One Friedman, R (2008) Dreamtelling as a Request for Containment - Three Uses of Dreams in Group Therapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol. 58(3): 327-344. Friedman, R (2006 a) The dream narrative as an interpersonal event - research results. funzionegamma. La Sapienza, University of Rome Friedman,R.(2015) Using the Transpersonal in Dream-telling and Conflict. Group Analysis, 48(1) 1-16 PART TWO: Who is sick? About Pathology in relations Introduction to Part Two Friedman, R. (2007) Where to look? Supervising Group Analysis - A Relations Disorder Perspective. Group Analysis, Vol. 40(2):251-268, Sage Friedman, R (2013) Individual or Group Therapy? Indications for Optimal Therapy. Group Analysis, 46: 164-170. Friedman, R (2014) Group Analysis Today - Developments in Intersubjectivity. Group Analysis, 47(3) 194-200 PART THREE: The Soldier's Matrix or how to live with existential anxieties, trauma and hopes for glory. The encounter with conflict in communities through the Sandwich Model - a combination between small and large groups to. Introduction to Part three Friedman, R. (2015). A Soldier's Matrix: A Group Analytic View of Societies in War. Group Analysis, 48(3) 239-257 Friedman, R. (2016) The group sandwich model for international conflict using large groups as a social developmental space. In: S.S. Fehr (Ed) 101 Interventions in Group Psychotherapy (pp.83-85). New-York: Routledge. The 42nd Foulkes Lecture - May 2018 Friedman, R(2018) Beyond rejection, glory and the Soldier's Matrix: the heart of my group analysis. Group Analysis. 51(4)1-17