Dreamtelling, Relations, and Large Groups

Robi Friedman, Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and emigrated to Israel at the age of thirteen. He has a private practice in Haifa, Israel; was the co-founder of and teacher at the Israel Institute for Group Analysis; and is the past president of the International Group Analytic Society.

"Readers will be fascinated by Robi Friedman’s refreshing perspectives on psychoanalytic thinking. Dreamtelling approaches dreams not only as the working-through of emotional excesses, but as influential communications. He considers psychopathology to be created in a relational frame of reference and possibly healed in it. His concept of the Soldier's Matrix provokes thinking about threatened societies, social trauma and social glory. This book will touch your minds as well as your hearts." --Vamik Volkan, M.D., DFLAPA, FACPsa, internationally renowned psychiatrist and President Emeritus of International Dialogue Initiative"This book is very much worth reading. Robi Friedman’s ideas of relational, transpersonal and communicative aspects of dreams, relational disorders and the Soldier´s Matrix, develop and renew Foulkes’ basic ideas. His Sandwich Model of a combination of small and large groups suggests a way of treating personal and social disorders and conflict resolution." --Gerda Winther, MA is a clinical psychologist in private practice, former chief psychologist and head of department, and past president of the Group Analytic Society, international"Robi is an innovator. His unique vision of group analysis blends leadership with nurture. In this selection of his published papers we can read and appreciate him as a theorist and a dreamer. His originality will inspire readers for generations, helping to shape a moral compass for the troubled society in Israel where he has made his home." --John Schlapobersky, Training Analyst, Supervisor and Teacher at the Institute of Group Analysis, London, and Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He is in private practice at the Bloomsbury Psychotherapy Practice

• Series Editor Foreword by Earl HopperGeneral Introduction PART ONE: Dreams and dreamers in relation and some research on Dreamtelling in families. Introduction to Part One Friedman, R (2008) Dreamtelling as a Request for Containment - Three Uses of Dreams in Group Therapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol. 58(3): 327-344. Friedman, R (2006 a) The dream narrative as an interpersonal event – research results. funzionegamma. La Sapienza, University of Rome Friedman,R.(2015) Using the Transpersonal in Dream-telling and Conflict. Group Analysis, 48(1) 1-16PART TWO: Who is sick? About Pathology in relationsIntroduction to Part TwoFriedman, R. (2007) Where to look? Supervising Group Analysis - A Relations Disorder Perspective. Group Analysis, Vol. 40(2):251-268, SageFriedman, R (2013) Individual or Group Therapy? Indications for Optimal Therapy. Group Analysis, 46: 164-170.Friedman, R (2014) Group Analysis Today – Developments in Intersubjectivity. Group Analysis, 47(3) 194-200PART THREE: The Soldier’s Matrix or how to live with existential anxieties, trauma and hopes for glory. The encounter with conflict in communities through the Sandwich Model – a combination between small and large groups to. Introduction to Part threeFriedman, R. (2015). A Soldier’s Matrix: A Group Analytic View of Societies in War. Group Analysis, 48(3) 239-257 Friedman, R. (2016) The group sandwich model for international conflict using large groups as a social developmental space. In: S.S. Fehr (Ed) 101 Interventions in Group Psychotherapy (pp.83-85). New-York: Routledge. The 42nd Foulkes Lecture – May 2018Friedman, R(2018) Beyond rejection, glory and the Soldier’s Matrix: the heart of my group analysis. Group Analysis. 51(4)1-17