Current Psychoanalysis
Group and Gang, Crowd and Mob: The Unconscious on Stage (2026)
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Two hosts discuss the key points of a paper by Mark Kinet in the Dutch Journal of Group Dynamics and Group Psychotherapy
Why do groups sometimes become irrational? Why do workplaces suddenly descend into dependency, conflict, or panic? And why do the same unconscious patterns seem to repeat across families, organisations, politics, and psychotherapy?
Drawing on Freud, Bion, Lacan, attachment…