ABSTRACT
A few members of the Genoese Centre of Psychoanalysis received a request for help from social and health workers; their job deals, in different ways and with different working abilities–both in the public and private sectors–with such themes as minor abuse and mistreatment. This chapter discusses the issue of violence and offering projects and actions to cope with it, starting from the premise that the group setting would be the most suitable tool. In both the worker and the colleague group, the psychoanalysts could realize how difficult it was to keep a steady course towards their working goals, especially when disturbing issues, such as hate, abuse and violence were affecting the emotions of the group members. The experience group of the social and health workers had no therapeutic goals, nor was there, at least at the beginning, a conscious need for 'the request to be cared for'.
