ABSTRACT
The term "group" indicates a social system that is a group, and not some other kind of social system. Actual groups might be understood in terms of their work group dynamics and/or their basic assumption group dynamics, which are a matter of the frame of reference and the gestalt of the observer of them. Although the work group might use the mentality of basic assumption processes in the service of its work, the basic assumption group is, in essence, both pathological and pathogenic. The bi-polar forms of Incohesion are Aggregation and Massification. Incohesion is caused by trauma and traumatogenic processes. Group trauma provokes social and cultural regression and the collapse of boundaries between people and their groupings. Aggressive feelings and aggression are especially important in the dynamics of incohesion. Both crustacean and amoeboid are likely to personify the processes of aggression associated with incohesion.
