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Introductory comments in memory of Pat de Mar\u00e9 and his work<\/h3>\nIntroductory comments in memory of Pat de Mar\u00e9 and his work<\/h3>\nby Hanne Campos<\/strong><\/p>\n Pat de Mar\u00e9 was one of the two original authors emerging from post-foulkesian Group Analysis (Londres) (1).\u00a0 The members of Grup d\u2019An\u00e0lisi Barcelona had the privilege of knowing him personally and working with him. In 1988, Juan Campos, as coordinator of the scientific program of the annual symposium of the SEPTG, invited him to conduct the large group of this latter event. He was also asked to lead a large group before and after the symposium for interested professionals in Barcelona and Bilbao. Finally, the experience was realized in Barcelona with a group of over 40 people, an experience which gave the impulse of making arrangements for a bi-weekly large group which met on the premises of the San Pablo Hospital in Barcelona during more tan three years. (1) The other is Robin Skynner who in a creative and original way promoted the study and practice of the family group, founding the Institute of Family Therapy, independent of the Institute of Group Analysis. His works are:\u00a0 One Flesh: Separate Persons. Principles of Family and Marital Psychotehrapy<\/em> (London: Constab le, 1976).\u00a0 Families and how to survive them<\/em> (London:\u00a0 Methuen, 1983) written in collaboration with John Cleese, and Institutes and how to survive them. Mental health training and consultation<\/em> (New York: Routledge, 1990), edited by John R. Schlapobersky. Introductory comments in memory of Pat de Mar\u00e9 and his work by Hanne Campos Pat de Mar\u00e9 was one of the two original authors emerging from post-foulkesian Group Analysis (Londres) (1).\u00a0 The members of Grup d\u2019An\u00e0lisi Barcelona had the privilege of knowing him personally and working with him. In 1988, Juan Campos, as coordinator of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1979,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1977\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grupdanalisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOn occasion of the symposium, Grup d\u2019An\u00e0lisi published a bi-lingual version English-Castilian of the work of Pat de Mar\u00e9 on The History of the Large Group. The most important effect of this publication was that the London editor Karnac, after some years of resistance and upon seeing it, finally decided to publish the last work of Pat: Koinonia (2).
\nFor The History of the Large Group, the author facilitated a curriculum vitae. But, when Juan Campos asked him for a more extended biography, he kindly responded to this invitation. In this Blog we include this autobiography. Beyond the personal data which permits us to know the author better, it is interesting to note that in his recall Pat includes the leaflet of Basil Beaumont \u201cThe technique of group work\u201d, published in 1935 (3). The fact is that to know and work with that group of the Society for Creative Psychology was the first professional imprint of group work Pat de Mar\u00e9 received in his long experience and he feels this to be so until his last days.
\nIn case it may bring the reader nearer to the work and the thinking of Pat de Mar\u00e9, we include in this space dedicated to the author a bilingual paper English\/Castilian of Hanne Campos (4) related to the diagram of the three cultures elaborated by Pat during a long time. Pat responded to the paper in the following terms: \u201c\u2026Thank you very much for calling people\u2019s attention to the diagram\u2026 which represents all I have tried to say in only one page!… You are the first person ever to mention this diagram of the three cultures\u2026 Malcolm Pines told me that with your paper he now understands much better what I have intended to transmit and has invited me to write for Group Analysis, the journal, referring to some of the things you have written\u2026 I am very grateful to you\u2026\u201d
\nPat de Mar\u00e9 died in 2008, leaving us the rich legacy of a life full of novel ideas and group practice which could help us to achieve a creative and peaceful collective life.<\/p>\n\n
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\n(2) Patrick de Mar\u00e9, Robin Piper and Sheila Thompson\u00a0 Koinonia. From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Large Group<\/em>, London: Karnac Books, 1991.
\n(3) Published in the Monograf\u00eda I \u201cComunidad Terap\u00e9utica y\/o Terapia de la Comunidad\u201d, Bolet\u00edn de la Sociedad Espa\u00f1ola de Psicoterapia y T\u00e9cnicas de Grupo<\/em>, Abril 1991.
\n(4) Hanne Campos, “Group Theories as con-text of group psychotherapy in particular and of group work in genera\u201d, presented to the Sub-Plenary Session of the IX Congress of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy, Zagreb 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"