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In Conflict and Community

A Century of Turbulence Working and Living in Groups

Pages 136-148
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article examines the century-long pairing of international wars followed by periods of resurgent interest in group psychotherapy and community-based treatment. It then focuses on the evolution of group and community treatment models, drawing on the work of Sigmund Freud, Trigant Burrow, Wilfred Bion, S. H. Foulkes, and Eric Berne to explore and illustrate the societal functions and difficulties of living and working in groups. The author offers his personal reflections on working with groups and concludes with a discussion of how group analytic models can extend the traditional models of transactional analysis group treatment to enhance the capacity of members to work with conflict, difference, and unconscious projections.

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William F. Cornell

Author Biography
William F. Cornell, MA, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) who maintains an independent private practice of therapy, consultation, and training in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as leading frequent training groups in Europe. He is one of the coeditors of the Transactional Analysis Journal and the author of numerous articles and books. He can be reached at 145 44th St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201, USA: email: . The author thanks Carol Solomon, Ann Heathcote, Marco Mazzetti, and Gloria Noriega for their important work in assuring digital access to the Eric Berne Archive at the University of California, San Francisco library and to David Krah of the UCSF Archives and Special Collections Department for his assistance in locating the particular papers and letters used in researching this article. The author also extends his appreciation for the critiques of the anonymous reviewers of the Transactional Analysis Journal, whose comments made this a far better article than the submitted manuscript.