ABSTRACT
The instrument of Clinical Group Seminars (CGS) is indicated for the patients treated by psychiatry professionals and institutions. The CGS is a place where movements of mental freedom that can unblock situations of stalemate in the relationship of the patient with the therapist and/or with the treating institution are activated and allow the formation of new psychic reorganizations. One specific added value of the CGS is its feasibility, as it presents a “light” methodology that includes depth and simplicity of the instruments necessary, mainly a group of therapists and a psychoanalyst trained to listen, and uses unconscious mental functioning in groups. The group work is oriented towards listening to something that has taken place elsewhere and that has a “traumatic” consistency: maternal depression, sexual abuse, and casual promiscuous sexuality. The training approach offers doctors the experience of how to relate to the patient, to understand the emotions that the session arouses and use them as a therapeutic instrument.
