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Discussant Articles

Maturing as a Community Effort

A Discussion of Dalal’s and Samuels’s Perspectives on Groups and Individuals

Pages 116-120
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article discusses papers by Dalal (2016) and Samuels (2016) that explore the tensions between the individual and the group, the complexities of group power dynamics and personal responsibility, and the concept of personal growth or maturation, which this discussant article posits as an outcome of the interplay between individual and social processes.

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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. He also serves as 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, United States; email: .