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The authors deal with the topic of training in group and institutional settings with specific attention to how these interventions can be conceived and implemented in the current social situation. The reflections move from a conceptual and operational reference scheme based on the operational psychoanalysis of E. Pichon-Rivière and J. Bleger for conceptualization and intervention through group devices and in the contexts of care institutions. The cultural dimension is considered as an aspect that characterizes many contexts of training work in the current psycho-social-health and educational services. The attitude and ability to welcome change on the part of operators is highlighted as a current necessity in training work. This presupposes knowing how to integrate and evolve the reference schemes through which group and institutional training interventions operate. The proposed reflection also takes into account some movements that are found today in the community context, in the Polis within which training processes involving groups and institutions take place. Thus the consideration arises that training has taken on, even more so in recent years, a role of welcoming the subjective, intersubjective, group and institutional dilemmas and conflicts connected to the task of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors introduce Bruno Vezzani's essay, "Responsibility in Politics", to connect it to education, the theme of the next issue of the Review. They highlight how current changes inevitably influence education, making it necessary to use other epistemologies and new ways of inhabiting the polis. Finally, the authors emphasise the extent to which the power of institutions determines and influences the very training of mental health workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article takes into consideration and tries to integrate the task of the hospitality towards migrants in the reception centres and the group training processes of the professionals working with them. Difficulties, protections and phenomena that emerge from these settings will be analysed, with particular attention to the group dinamics and processes, considered both in the community life and in the training and supervision contexts. In the subsequent reflections, as in the methodologies applied on the field, the authors investigate a possible integration between operational psychoanalysis, mainly referring to the works of Pichon-Rivière and Bleger, group approach and some elements from the etnopsichiatry school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]