Group Analytic Contexts, Issue 77, September 2017

64 Group-Analytic Society International - Contexts
for that, I will never forget you.
In the second session, we had times of speaking in gibberish,
an equally revealing experience where there was a lot of laughter and
laid bare some of our communication styles. The “novelty, harmony
and invention” mentioned in the programme was clearly also part the
conductor’s imaginations - so incredibly imaginative and unique;
more thanks them and the group from me.
The Gala Evening
Though this was a bit disappointing foodwise (running out!
really!) the band, which I had cursed whilst we were eating (or not
eating, in my case) because they were slaughtering songs I love
(possibly the worst Stand By Me ever!) turned up trumps when it came
to dancing - they were really quite sinuous and various rhythmically
(their version of Ed Sheeran’s The Shape of You was better than his)
so I forgave their previous sins against music. Everyone danced so
damned erotically, men and women alike - Christine, loved the
shoulders; and Beautiful, Dancer, Sex Bomb, Comedian, Heart &
Soul, E Casanova, Editor (special award for the Jagger moves), you
were also transformed into the beautiful, graceful, sexy spirits you
really are - made me come over all polymorphic perverse. Love GA’s
at play. (Me? Dr Love, of course.)
Apart from this someone came up and said, “You bastard!” several
times very loudly because she had actually read my column – could
any author hope for a more satisfying response? Certainly, it put the
cherry on top of my night.
Saturday
The first session I will pass over in silence, there are always
disappointments and I should have looked more closely at the abstract.
Group analytic “music” in harmony and disruptions across GASI
landscapes. On the last day, I joined the second of Marina and
Marita’s sessions on the internationalisation of Group Analysis. For
the first time at the Sy (I’d tried at the GASI AGM where I was told
I’d been heard but was actually brushed aside) I felt listened to about
the ambivalence towards the International part of GASI symbolised
by the inconsistencies in fonts of the International part of the name
(just look at the cover of your programme and abstracts booklets) and
that it is sometimes written GASi. As a result of this I have been
inspired to campaign for a change of name to the International
Group Analytic Society of which more later via the forum and