ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the foundations of operative group theory based on Enrique Pichon Riviere’s ideas. Since social psychologists study individuals and groups in depth, they must simultaneously avoid both flight behavior and the influence of prevailing views in their immediate professional context. The teaching method promoted by Pichon Riviere is interdisciplinary, cumulative, and interdepartmental, and it involves targeted teaching. Interdisciplinary teaching hinges on the pre-existence in each person of an individual frame of reference. Interdisciplinary teaching fosters the creation of departments where students from different schools may engage with subjects common to several fields of study. In this way, diverse groups of students come together in the same place and create interrelationships among them. This type of teaching exists to varying degrees in some foreign schools and universities that have felt the need to provide a more vocational and synthetic education.
