The group in times of crisis. The group psychoanalytic approach and the discomfort in the culture of our time

The practice of psychoanalysis has been transformed under the combined effect of social and cultural factors and the forms of psychic suffering that depend on it. This evolution has developed further devices for psychoanalytic work with families, couples, groups and institutions. The group experience has opened up other conditions of access to knowledge of the unconscious and its effects on subjectivity, to the articulation between the intrapsychic space, the intersubjective bond space and the group space. The concepts and models constructed to account for psychic reality in these three spaces prove to be relevant for the treatment of different forms of contemporary discomfort.