ABSTRACT
The concept of psychological space in workgroups is not widely discussed in the psychoanalytic literature. There has been especially little discussion concerning how a leader or consultant might understand and utilize space to facilitate group cohesion. A. Kenneth Rice and Eric Miller used the Tavistock model, a convergence of psychoanalysis and social science in the study of group relations (Obholzer and Roberts 1994). The A. K. Rice Institute adapted the model in the United States (Colman and Bexton 1975; Colman and Geller 1985) to consider authority and social systems. Neither, though, discusses space in relation to their concepts.
