Group Analytic Contexts, Issue 77, September 2017

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Be a Contexts Writer!
“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor
will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be”. Mark Twain
Contexts welcomes contributions from GASi members and nonmembers
on a variety of topics: Have you run or attended a groupanalytic
or group psychotherapy workshop? Are you involved in a
group-analytic or group psychotherapy project that others might
want to learn about? Would you like to share your ideas or
professional concerns with a wide range of colleagues? If so, send us
an article for publication by post, e-mail, or fax. Articles submitted
for publication should be between 500 and 5,000 words long, or
between one and ten A4 pages. Writing for Contexts is an ideal
opportunity to begin your professional writing career with something
that is informal, even witty or funny, a short piece that is a report of
an event, a report about practice, a review of a book or film, a reply
to an earlier article published here, or stray thoughts that you have
managed to capture on paper. Give it a go!
Articles are welcome from all those who work with groups in any
discipline: whether practitioners, trainers, researchers, users, or
consultants. Accounts of innovations, research findings on existing
practice, policy issues affecting group therapy, and discussions of
conceptual developments are all relevant. Group therapy with clients,
users, professional teams, or community groups fall within our
range.
Length: Full length articles; of up to 5,000 words, should show the
context of practice and relate this to existing knowledge. We also
accept brief contributions which need focus only on the issue at
hand: brief descriptions, reviews, personal takes of workshops or
events attended, humorous asides, letters and correspondence.
Presentation: articles, letters, etc. should ideally be in Word format
and forwarded as an email attachment to the Editors.
Please don’t worry about language, grammar and the organisation of
your piece. We, as editors, receive many pieces from non-English
speaking countries and it is our job to work with you to create a
piece of writing that is grammatical and reads well in English. This