Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 0Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology ResearchCultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical ReflectionsPsychotherapy Techniques and Applications

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 47 of the 47 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Navigating Social Enactments in Psychoanalytic Group Therapy

Wright, Ellen L., Black, Aaron E.·2026·International Journal of Group Psychotherapy
DOI 10.1080/00207284.2026.2675254
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Addressing social enactments in group therapy requires integrating developmental theory with cultural identity dynamics. As social power dynamics emerge, the effectiveness of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy can be enhanced by modifying perspectives on transference, resistance, and the emotional transparency of the leader. This paper proposes theoretical and technical modifications to respond to repetitions of social inequities in the group process, including revised thinking about resistance analysis, the group agreement and the contact function. These changes aim to equip leaders to engage more skillfully with social microaggressions and enactments. Clinical examples illustrate strategies for resolving identity-based group conflicts. We argue that attention to social enactments extends, rather than contradicts, developmental aims. When leaders remain accountable to social power, groups can foster psychological growth and emotional repair.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1080/00207284.2026.2675254

Cites

47 of 47 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Citations

Cites

Show all 41 references

Research works printed but not linked: 35

  1. Aron, L. (1996). A meeting of the minds: Mutuality in psychoanalysis. Routledge.
  2. Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning from experience. Heinemann.
  3. 10.1080/00207284.2025.257029 · DOI
  4. Collins, P. H. (2000). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment (2nd ed.). Routledge.
  5. 10.1080/00207284.2021.1877242 · DOI
  6. Crenshaw, K. W. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.
  7. DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press.
  8. Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E., & Target, M. (2002). Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self. Other Press.
  9. Freud, S. (1964). The psychopathology of everyday life. In J. Strachey (Ed.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 6, pp. 9–320). Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1901).
  10. 10.1080/00207284.2014.992496 · DOI
  11. 10.1080/00207284.2016.1103567 · DOI
  12. Hardy, K. V. (2016). Anti-racist approaches for shaping theoretical and practice paradigms. In M. Pender-Greene & A. Siskin (Eds.), Anti-racist strategies for the health and human services (pp. 125–139). Oxford University Press.
  13. 10.1080/21674086.1998.11927432 · DOI
  14. Hopper, E. (2001). The social unconscious: Selected papers. Karnac.
  15. Hopper, E. (2003). The social unconscious: Selected papers. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  16. Hopper, E., & Weinberg, H. (Eds.). (2011–2016). The social unconscious in persons, groups, and societies (Vol. 1-3). Karnac.
  17. 10.1177/000306519804600407 · DOI
  18. Kris, E. (1952). Psychoanalytic explorations in art. International Universities Press.
  19. 10.1080/10481885.2020.1822641 · DOI
  20. 10.1080/00207284.1984.11491897 · DOI
  21. Ormont, L. (1992a). The group-as-a-whole: A systemic perspective. In M. Pines (Ed.), The evolution of group analysis (pp. 213–226). Routledge.
  22. Ormont, L. (1992b). Unveiling resistances. In L. Ormont (Ed.), The group therapy experience (pp. 137–149). St. Martin’s Press.
  23. Ormont, L. (1992c). Don’t be a fixer. In L. Ormont (Ed.), The group therapy experience (pp. 107–118). St. Martin’s Press.
  24. 10.1080/00207284.1999.11490846 · DOI
  25. 10.1080/00207284.2005.11442628 · DOI
  26. Racker, H. (1968). Transference and countertransference. International Universities Press.
  27. Rosenthal, L. (1987). Resolving resistance in group psychotherapy. Jason Aronson.
  28. Sensoy, Ö., & DiAngelo, R. (2017). Is everyone really equal? An introduction to key concepts in social justice education (2nd ed.). Teachers College Press.
  29. Snyder, J. (2015). Modern psychoanalysis. Modern Psychoanalysis, 40(2), 119–154.
  30. Spotnitz, H. (1976). Psychotherapy of preoedipal conditions. Jason Aronson.
  31. Spotnitz, H. (1985). Modern analysis of the schizophrenic patient (2nd ed.). Hudson Sciences Press.
  32. 10.1080/10481885.2025.2489331 · DOI
  33. Wright, E. (2022, April). Use of self and care of self: New directions for working with countertransference [Conference presentation]. 50th Anniversary of the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
  34. 10.1080/modpsych.2026.117420 · DOI
  35. Yalom, I. D., & Leszcz, M. (2020). The theory and practice of group psychotherapy (6th ed.). Basic Books.

Cited by

Still being checked.

Related

Metadata

Authors
Wright, E. L., & Black, A. E.
Corresponding author
Black, Aaron E.
ORCID
Venue
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2026-07-03
Volume
76
Issue
3
Pages
450-482
ISSN
  • 0020-7284 (ISSN-L)
  • 1943-2836
DOI
10.1080/00207284.2026.2675254
OpenAlex
W7168277616
Cited by
0
References
41
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.org/10.1080/policies-text-data-mining (tdm)
Locations
  • International Journal of Group Psychotherapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Keywords
psychoanalytic group therapy, social power dynamics, microaggressions, transference, resistance analysis, group agreement, contact function, cultural identity, developmental theory
MeSH terms
Social Group, Group Dynamics, Humans, Power, Psychological, Psychoanalytic Therapy, Psychotherapy, Group, Social Identification, Transference, Psychology

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.