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2 friends discussing the surprising invitations, terrors, replications, possibilities and intimacy of process groups.
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Sarah + Vanessa talk more about the permission to be ourselves and to follow the grain of our wood, professionally and personally.
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the how sometimes choosing pleasure and ease is just what the doctor ordered.
Vanessa and Sarah talk about the energizing quality of aggression.
Vanessa + Sarah discuss the Aaron Black's 2017 article "On Attacking and Being Attacked in Group Psychotherapy" and the utility of expressed aggression in groups.
Sarah + Vanessa talk about one of many approaches to working with dreams, and gratitude for the composting/metabolizing function of the unconscious.
Sarah shares with Vanessa some of the impact of psychoanalyst Dr. David Ramirez on the psychoanalytic community; David was the first to teach her that the highest form of psychoanalysis is Play.
Vanessa and Sarah discuss maxims for a New Year.
At the close of the year, Vanessa + Sarah talk about group in relation to endings, and variations of ending well.
Vanessa + Sarah reflect on the idea of the longest day of the year, the dark invitations of group, a Gerald May quote on savoring life-juice, and a poem titled, "Prayer at Winter Solstice" by acclaimed poet Dana Gioia.
Sarah + Vanessa share a conversation they recorded earlier this year but never published on: Process Group as Comparably Uncomfortable to Acting Game and/or Ecstatic Dance.
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the value of exploring wishes and jealousy as a way to discover what we might be longing for.
Vanessa + Sarah discuss Ronnie Levine's (2017) article, A Modern Psychoanalytic Perspective on Group Therapy.
Vanessa + Sarah share a few more thoughts about the invitations of exploring erotic transference in group and life. (PART III.)
Sarah + Vanessa talk about the grief-side of longing.
Sarah + Vanessa begin to describe some of the invitations of exploring erotic transference in therapy and in group.
Sarah + Vanessa talk about their particular (though not unique) need to learn to say No.
Sarah + Vanessa discuss their association to the (1981) article by Rutan and Rice: The Charismatic Leader: Asset or Liability?
Sarah + Vanessa try to answer the question: how do you Say the Unsaid when the Other won't listen?
Vanessa + Sarah reflect on one year of leading process groups, tolerating the aggression and gift of Slug Hugs, the invitation of faking it until you make it, and the imperative to make mountains out of molehills.
Sarah + Vanessa talk about leading with vulnerability, the etymology of the word vulnerability, and a few resonant ideas from Livington's 1999 article on Vulnerability and Tenderness in Group Psychotherapy.
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