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Beyond Closed Doors: Thinking Through Bion and the Primal Scene: A Group Writing Project

The Primal Scene in and about Psychoanalytic Institutions

 

ABSTRACT

Drawing on notions of primal scene and Bion’s theorizing of groups, this essay looks at the elements in institutional groups where transgressions and corruption may appear and develop and examines the difficulties group members have in working through the violations and potential disruptions to the institution’s functioning.

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Adrienne E. Harris

Adrienne E. Harris, Ph.D., is Faculty and Supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is on the faculty and is a supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. In 2009, She, Lewis Aron, and Jeremy Safran established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School University. With Lewis Aron she edits the Relational Book Series (Taylor & Francis), which has published over 60 volumes.

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