`Clues to Identity' in Trans- and Intercultural Group Analysis

Abstract

In the first analytic session of a group the subject is put in an unusual setting. The field resulting from this new setting produces a disarrangement of the social known rules, which induces new unconscious processes but also some stereotyped behaviour, which allows mutual identification between the group's members. In that way group cohesion is facilitated. The dynamic process in the first session is very much conditioned by the context in which it takes place. The author describes differences observed in transcultural and intercultural groups.