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The essentials of therapeutic practice in group analysis are summarised through three basic principles. The conductor is responsible for fostering a climate that allows each of a group's members to find their own voice; bear witness to the voices of others; and come out of the shadows together through the group's discourse. These principles are built on the author's earlier writing about the speech, silence, and the language of the group which can make a home amongst strangers. They are framed in the ordinary language of daily experience and the parallel idiom of musicology to address the most primary of musical instruments—the voice. They incorporate of a range of other terms and concepts that bring our attention to core complexities at the heart of many peoples' deepest sources of disquiet arising out of unresolved intergenerational trauma. The group's work is akin to a mourning process set in motion for hitherto unacknowledged grief. Disturbance can move about unpredictably. Our challenge is to locate and translate hidden, buried or displaced injury into the everyday language of human suffering where seeds can be sown for resolution. This multi-modal presentation is illustrated with clinical vignettes from groups at work and with collage and paintings. It opens with a Paul McCartney song, 'Blackbird' (1968), whose music and lyrics give historical significance to the struggle for human rights. Its closing vignettes explore 'tools for conviviality' with images of lost and found brotherhood and a spontaneous online ceremony of eating together in China. The paintings of Morris Nitsun bring us to an ultimate agency for change generated by small groups—the shifting mood-scape of their dynamic life. One image conveys the tragedy and desolation of the pandemic, and another offers the natural world's consolation in beauty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the work of large groups in the training of group psychotherapists and is organized in two parts for sequential publication. We review the literature on the history and evolution of large groups in general, concentrating on those devoted to the large group in training, starting from the very first, Skynner's, from which we take our title. The core of the paper explores the learning experience provided by the Large Training Group (LTG) serving students on the Diploma and Qualifying Courses at the Institute of Group Analysis, London (IGA). We describe the LTG from the standpoint of its staff and participating students over a period of some eight years; discuss the role of the staff sub-group in the evolution and co-creation of a particular discourse and we give special attention to the question of leadership and the role of the convener. Each of its two parts contains a vignette that is discussed in the light of the literature reviewed; and each contains a summarizing table, the first devoted to our principles of practice and the second to the primary purposes of the LTG and our staffing responsibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malcom Pines died peacefully at his home on 3rd July 2021 at 96 - a radical pioneer and ambassador for change in mental health practice and its literature. In 1964, Pines established, along with Foulkes, Skynner and different groups of related colleagues, a private psychotherapy practice, the Group Analytic Practice and a training centre, the Institute of Group Analysis, in 1973. 22 Pines M (Schlapobersky J (ed.)) (2021) Selected Papers in Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis. 4 Group Analysis (2010) Special Edition: Malcolm Pines at 85. [Extracted from the article]

This paper is a summary of one published in Group Analysis (Cilasun, Schlapobersky, Papanastassiou e Thomas, 2021), "The Large Group in Training, revised for Gruppi for Italian readers. It explores the learning experience provided by the Large Training Group (LTG) serving students on the courses at the Institute of Group Analysis, London (IGA). We describe the LTG from the standpoint of its staff and participating students over a period of some eight years; discuss the role of the staff sub-group giving special attention to the question of leadership and the role of the convener. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]