ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the destruction and development in group analysis and suggests using certain concepts in the intersubjective psychoanalytic literature for describing processes pertaining to members of a group. It demonstrates the relevance of each of these concepts to the group as a whole by means of a clinical vignette. Regarding the notion of mirroring, S. Foulkes and Anthony compared participating in group therapy to being in a hall of mirrors, claiming that the effect of finding oneself in such a hall of mirrors is beneficial to the individual and to the group. The specific concepts are: recognition and destruction, surrender, multiple selves and especially, the concept of the not-me self. Surrender facilitates movement within and between the partners of the interaction. The ability to surrender is directly related to the individual's capacity to contain multiple and opposing versions of the self. The chapter describes an incident that occurred in groups in order to illustrate the interpersonal and intrapersonal processes.
