“Bilbao 1974-1999: Discussing the human group” [1] [2]

Introduction by Hanne Campos

 

This paper takes up the diagram[3] [4] elaborated by S. H. Foulkes and the group of the Preparatory Commission of the International Congress of Mental Health in 1948 in London, which studied the relationship between a more institutionalized communication, usual in more structured groups like a didactic class, and a more spontaneous communication prevailing in unstructured groups as is the case of a groupanalytic group. I use this diagram to visualize the progressive institutionalization of the groupanalytic training program in the geographic area of Bilbao during the first twenty-five years of its development. I suggest the hypothesis that actually this phenomenon occurs generally in all types of training programs and training institutions.