Theoretical and Methodological Basis for Formation of Large Contact Group as a Subject

Abstract

Abstract This article considers the problem of formation of large contact group as a subject. The new types of large groups may, first of all, include various organizational, training or psychotherapeutic groups aiming at personal or group (organizational) transformations. The most common name of techniques for large groups is “Large group intervention”. Our theoretical concept of the formation of contact group with a large number of participants is based on the following suppositions: the nature of large contact group is dual and has a spontaneous-organized character, large contact group is a variant of dissipative structure, the formation of the group subject is characterized by the quality transformation of intergroup contactability reversing from subject-object into subject-subject.