Partners' Institution:
Institute of Group Analysis Athens
Name of the person involved in the event:
Francesca Giuseppina Bascialla
Date of the event:
11 June 2022 - 11 June 2022
Type of Dissemination event:
Conference or Fair
Target group:
Universities (lecturers and students)
Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
Trainers of psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
Researchers/professors in the Emergency field
Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
Trainers of psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts
Researchers/professors in the Emergency field
Number of people reached by event:
110
Held in:
Warsaw (POLAND)
Description of Dissemination Event:
I am honored to have been invited as a lecturer at the 18th Scientific Conference of the Institute of Group Analysis Rasztów (IGAR) in Warsaw. This Institute is the oldest training institute for group analysis in Poland, like IGA Athens (IGAA) one among the oldest in Europe and related to the first ever, the Institute of Group Analysis London, founded in 1971 by Foulkes and colleagues. IGA Rasztów counts about 400 members. Next year it will be the 30th anniversary of IGAR foundation. At the beginning of the conference, following the tradition, the awards ceremony of the diploma in group analysis and/or individual psychotherapy was held.
The venue was the University Library, a large open space where natural daylight comes across the shelves. The number of participants was 110 among psychotherapists, trainees and trainers. The discussion after the two lectures was vivid and challenging, open not only to new understanding but also to new query.
Anna Lissewska’s lecture entitled ‘So close, still so far / So far, still so close’, explores her professional experience in the ‘migration’ to online session referring to the setting, the boundaries, the lack of physical presence, the concept of presence and closeness through a screen.
My lecture entitled ‘Open group psychotherapy in an acute ward: meeting personal and collective identity’, describes my experience as group analyst in conducting open group psychotherapy with in-patients at the 1th Psychiatric Department of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTh). My presentation underlines how group psychotherapy with in-patients can serve as a safe environment, how a network of relationships between patients and staff developed in non-structured activities resonates within the group analytic group, and how to regain your personal and collective identity being a refugee in a multi-languages context.
I would like to express my gratitude to Anna Mędrzejewska, chair of IGAR, and to the Organisational Committee of the Conference for inviting me. In her introductory speech, Anna Mędrzejewska spoke about ‘rivers of people’ coming in escaping the war and forced to leave their country. The role of psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists should be to ‘enter in dialogue’ with them but also to rethink our method of psychoanalytic work that is becoming a central topic due to refugees crisis and Covid-19 pandemic. I would like to thank my colleague Jan Strawa for his concern and advices during the preparation of my journey to Warsaw. It was a pleasure to speak Italian, my mother tongue, with Anna during the break and the reception at their training institute. I would like to express also my appreciation to both colleagues Andrea Rosa and Marta Kuczewska for being next to me translating from Polish to English during the discussion and the Large Group.
The venue was the University Library, a large open space where natural daylight comes across the shelves. The number of participants was 110 among psychotherapists, trainees and trainers. The discussion after the two lectures was vivid and challenging, open not only to new understanding but also to new query.
Anna Lissewska’s lecture entitled ‘So close, still so far / So far, still so close’, explores her professional experience in the ‘migration’ to online session referring to the setting, the boundaries, the lack of physical presence, the concept of presence and closeness through a screen.
My lecture entitled ‘Open group psychotherapy in an acute ward: meeting personal and collective identity’, describes my experience as group analyst in conducting open group psychotherapy with in-patients at the 1th Psychiatric Department of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki (AUTh). My presentation underlines how group psychotherapy with in-patients can serve as a safe environment, how a network of relationships between patients and staff developed in non-structured activities resonates within the group analytic group, and how to regain your personal and collective identity being a refugee in a multi-languages context.
I would like to express my gratitude to Anna Mędrzejewska, chair of IGAR, and to the Organisational Committee of the Conference for inviting me. In her introductory speech, Anna Mędrzejewska spoke about ‘rivers of people’ coming in escaping the war and forced to leave their country. The role of psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists should be to ‘enter in dialogue’ with them but also to rethink our method of psychoanalytic work that is becoming a central topic due to refugees crisis and Covid-19 pandemic. I would like to thank my colleague Jan Strawa for his concern and advices during the preparation of my journey to Warsaw. It was a pleasure to speak Italian, my mother tongue, with Anna during the break and the reception at their training institute. I would like to express also my appreciation to both colleagues Andrea Rosa and Marta Kuczewska for being next to me translating from Polish to English during the discussion and the Large Group.
Supporting Documents:1. 18th Scientific Conference IGA Rasztow 11th May 2022.JPG
2. 18th Scientific Conference IGA Rasztow Warsaw 11th May 2022.JPG
3. 18th Scientific Conference Institute of Group Analysis Rasztow Warsaw 11th May 2022.jpg
4. Biblioteka Uniwersytecka W Warszawie.jpg
5. Lecturer Anna Lissewska.JPG
6. Marta Kuczewska, Francesca G. Bascialla, Anna Medrzejewska.JPG
