Group Analytic Contexts, Issue 77, September 2017

138 Group-Analytic Society International - Contexts
MY WORLD – YOU’RE WELCOME TO IT
It should’ve been you
I Go AWOL, Doc
Davinia Palace’s session with Doc
DP:
Who’s in charge here? Don’t answer that – I am. So I’m
thinking about the IGA and I’m going to talk about it despite
you disapproving when I do and insisting I should talk about
my damn self all the bleedin’ time. I mean, you’re supposed to
be a therapist, where do you get off telling me what I should
and shouldn’t talk about, I’m the one whose paying for your
service.
Doc: And, indeed, I’m at yours.
DP:
OK, good. Well, Lavinia’s applying to be a training group
analyst with the IGA and I’ve been thinking, why?
Doc: Why………?
DP:
Why special training group analysts.
Doc: Err……because trainees need to be in a group?
DP:
Duh! I’m not an idiot (ok, I am an idiot, but not in the way you
seem to be implying), my point is, why can’t they go into any
group that’s running twice a week if that’s what the training
requires, why a special category of GA?
Doc: They, IGA, needs to be assured that the GA is up to the job,
perhaps?
DP:
They’ve been training the poor buggers for at least four years,
if you don’t think you’ve produced or approved someone
who’s good enough by then, what the hell do you think you are
doing taking money from them, what’s happened to your
standards?
Doc: Surely before taking on someone in training a GA would need