ABSTRACT

Drawing on clinical practice, this book explores how the Black feminist idea of intersectionality is vital to all group work practices, including group analysis.

Intersectionality enables exploration of power, position, and privilege in group work; this volume is an argument for the ‘decolonizing’ of therapeutic group training, practice, and institutional traditions. The wide range of contributors discuss the impact of intersectionality on their work within group analysis, from clinical examples to theoretical reflections. Chapters span topics such as leadership, racism, working with survivors of sexual violence, and the experience of being a political refugee. Intersectionality and Group Analysis provides a space to develop clinically relevant theory for the future and includes an accessible introduction to the concepts of intersectionality.

This essential text will be key reading for group analysts, other professionals working with and within groups, and readers looking to learn more about enhancing diversity within structures and organizations. 

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

Putting Intersectionality to Work

chapter Chapter 1|22 pages

Holding the Broken Pieces

An Intersectional Approach to Group Analysis for Women in Prison

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

The Body of the Group

Sexuality, Transgender, and Group Polyphony 1

chapter Chapter 4|22 pages

This Is How I Came To Live in Stuckness

Intersectionality, Oppression and ‘Affectivism’ as a Group Analytic Intervention

chapter Chapter 7|20 pages

Missing Dialogues

chapter |12 pages

Conclusion

A Group-Analytic Intersectional Manifesto