The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis explores the social unconscious in persons, groups and societies in terms of the "un-acknowledged" restraints and constraints of our social and cultural groupings. In this context, Earl Hopper and an international team of contributors elucidate the theory and concept of the tripartite matrix as a tool for the deeper understanding of the human condition and for clinical work in various settings. They consider topics ranging from envy to intersectionality, and from addiction to the inability to mourn. The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis will be of great interest to group analysts, psychoanalytical group therapists, psychoanalysts and psycho-dramatists, as well as to social scientists more generally. Its extensive bibliography will be of particular value to students.

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AcknowledgementsAbout the Editor and ContributorsIntroduction by Earl Hopper ,The Tripartite Matrix of Social Systems, ,,The Cornerstone, Once More – Dieter Nitzgen , The Tripartite Matrix in Foulkesian Group Analysis – Earl Hopper , Improvised Vocality of Verbal Communication in Groups: A Contribution to the Conceptualisation of the Tripartite Matrix in Group Analysis - Helga Felsberger , ,Personifications and the Interpersonal Matrix, ,,Personification and Polarisation within the Foundation Matrix of Israel: A Case Example – Yossi Triest , Nikola Tesla and the Social Unconscious of Serbs: The Dance of Science with Poetry, and of the Earthly with the Heavenly – Marina Mojovic and Jelica Satari? , Sex, Custom and Madness: A Case Study of the Personification of the Tripartite Matrix of South-Africa by a South-African Psychiatrist – Penelope Busetto , ,Personifications and Clinical Work, ,,Transference, Countertransference and the Social Unconscious: The Bastion in Clinical Figurations in Tripartite Matrices – Carla Penna , Recognizing Codes of Superiority in Clinical Work: Social Unconscious, Racism, Sexism, and other Elements of Intersectionality - Kavita Avula , The White Mirror: Face to Face with Racism in Group Analysis – Anne Aiyegbusi , IV - Topics,Envy & Gender, ,,They Envy Us: Privilege and Power Relations in the Social Unconscious - Avi Berman , Bigenderality, Bisexuality, Foundation Matrix and the Social Unconscious - Gila Ofer , Fear of Envy and Dispossession: The Evil Eye - Leyla Navaro , ,Addiction, ,,Addiction in Egypt in the context of its Foundation Matrix - Mona Rakhawy and Nabil Elkot , Dangerous Desire: Addiction, Consumption and Recovery - Martin Weegmann , ,Equivalence, ,,The Brexit Referendum and the Inability to Mourn: Equivalence in a Large Group – Frances Griffiths , The Inability to Mourn and the Manic Defense of Reconstruction in Post-World War Japan - Kai Ogimoto and Tomas Plaenkers , Social Unconscious and Group Psychotherapy in Georgia - Rezo Korinteli , V -Working in the Tripartite Matrix The Trilogy Matrix Event (TME): A Setting for Collective Reflection on System Dynamics of the Tripartite Matrix - Richard Morgan-Jones , Index