Our psychoanalytic study group has been meeting for two years to work through Winnicott and Klein together, but three of us have started analyzing each other's contributions as resistance or acting out instead of just engaging with the material, and now every session feels like we're performing our pathology rather than learning about it.
More people experience this than they realize.
A learning cohort has collapsed the boundary between studying psychological theory and applying it to group dynamics, creating a defensive spiral that undermines both relationships and learning.
“Where Are You with Psychoanalytic frameworks for self-understanding?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.