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Articles

Looking for Trouble in Groups Developing the Professional’s Capacity

Pages 296-310
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Disorganization and terror may be unavoidable in groups that are developing the professional’s capacity to bear the troubles of human life, in every field of practice. As a response to such experiences, the author engages with two recurrent, researchable questions: When facilitating professional growth, what is the framework for recovering thoughtfulness amid such distress? And what are the evolving challenges of the group’s designated leader?

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N. Michel Landaiche,

Author Biography
N. Michel Landaiche, III, PhD, is a psychotherapist and training supervisor for the student counseling center at Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty member teaching Bowen family systems theory for the Western Pennsylvania Family Center. He can be contacted at 5018 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA, or by email at . The author would like to express his deep thanks to the transactional analysis community near Lyon, France, whose learning in groups first provoked the insights that eventually led to this paper and whose patience over many years offered the incubator he needed to figure out these words.