The Matrix Disrupted. Challenges and Changes

Abstract

In our globalized era destructive effects of endless social tragedies and turbulent changes are widely spread, like tsunamis disrupting matrices of families, organizations, professional fields, group analytic groups, and communities— ‘un-housed pain-ghosts’ are haunting borders and generations—dismantling our safety and making us all accountable. Group analysis, since its inception, has provided survival skills for disrupted matrices, but does not use them enough. Fortunately, there are ‘cracks’ in everything, where light may get in. ‘Social-psychic-retreats’—trauma sequels co-created as alternative spaces, or foster homes—in cracks, caves and other trauma-formation, where the beauty of art, along with a ‘leap of faith’ might temporarily embrace the ‘un-homed minds’ and pain—but can also keep human ‘vital sparks’ paralysed for a long time. Backed by the poem ‘Ring the Bells that Still can Ring (Cohen, Anthem, 1992)’, struggles from small groups, median groups and reflective citizens, are shared.