ABSTRACT
It is eleven o'clock in the morning; the therapy groups have finished for the day. The staff then meet together for one hour to begin to share and process the five groups they have just facilitated. Each day someone donates a packet of biscuits to the cause. The team bicker and jibe each other in a humorous way over who has the most biscuits, who brought them last, who never brings them, who brought the special chocolate ones. Some are self-sufficient and bring their own sustenance, maintaining difference, not trusting others to feed them properly and resistant to joining in the melee. This is symbolic of the need for nurture and soothing, the hidden aggression and tension, the tremend ous drain on individual internal resources and the competition for each to feel special and have their fill in the limited time available. We eventually settle, a new order is found each day and the team begins the business of digesting the morning's events.
