Chair:

Michael Stiers, Ph.D., CGP, Faculty, the Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, D.C.

Leaders:

Martha Gilmore, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, Davis, California

Haim Weinberg, Ph.D., CGP, Private Practice, Carmichael, California

The Large Group (LG) offers a context for exploring the interface between psychotherapy and sociotherapy. Membership in a Large Group is akin to citizenship in a community.  It allows for exploration of the conscious and unconscious processes within the community of the AGPA organization including anxieties, competitions, and rivalries. It provides an important forum for understanding social interactive processes, interrelationships between social subgroups and for exploring one's social role. Participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions

The attendee will be able to:

1. Identify their individual pattern of participation as a citizen in a community

2. Define social processes and connect them to large group processes.

3. Specify social subgroups and their interrelationships.

1. Hopper, E. (2003). The Social Unconscious: Selected papers. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

2. Kreeger, L. (1975) (Ed.), The Large Group: Dynamics and Therapy. London: Constable.

3. Schneider, S. & Weinberg, H. (2003). (Eds.), The Large Group Revisited: The Herd, Primal Horde, Crowds and Masses. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.