Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 81, September 2018

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are not abandoned, is needed. Care paths, with understanding of
mental health and creating a legal framework for psycho-education
and engagement, are helpful. Multilevel intervention, in family,
school, community, society, is effective. Unification and
internationalization of service models of prevention are necessary.
Gradual placement of simple goals helps ensure success.
Diversity and heterogeneity constitute human groups. Mental
and social alterity characterize human nature. Differentiation and
personalization harmoniously compose social groups, thus resulting to
the elimination of stigma for ‘different features’. According to
Foulkes (1948), ‘…these patients (group members), collectively
constitute the very norm, from which, individually, they
deviate….each individual is to a large extent a part of the group, to
which he belongs’.
In order to ensure the world is a safe shelter, we need to create
an egalitarian value system, to show the interdependence existing
between human beings, to build bridges across differences, to accept
and promote diversity as a basic element of society, to destroy the
borders imprisoning our souls, to advocate inclusion directions, to
embrace human experience, suffering and trauma, to recognize the
challenges of existence, to ensure a good quality of life for all. Success
is established via cooperation and collaboration.
The road to health is open to ameliorations and
improvements. The dimension ‘health’ is outraged by being
preoccupied solely with the disease. An urgent need for mental
comfort emerges. The simultaneous impact of a financial and refugee
crisis quashes mental health, not only of the refugees, but also of the
host population.
The implementation of group analytic psychotherapy
in health promotion and in the prevention of mental
disease
Interdependence and interconnection characterize social networks.
This is the human condition. ‘We have an effect on others we are
affected by others, we influence and we are influenced’ (Dalal, 2012).
The individual, while helplessly compressed into a mere
particle of social groups and masses, is at the same time left
without any true companionship in regard to his inner mental
life … all the disturbances … are essentially and integrally
bound up with human relationships (Foulkes and Anthony,
1957).