The Tripartite Matrix: Individual, Group, Society
Date: Wednesday, November 20: 7:30pm-9pm
Credits: 1.5 CE
Speaker:Melissa Wallace, M.D., Melissa Black, Ph.D., Dale C. Godby, Ph.D.
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209
Using the concept of the social unconscious we will explore the relationship between the foundation matrix, the dynamic matrix of the group, and the individual matrix. We present the ways they intertwine themselves to form psychodynamics observable in the clinical setting and in society at large. The work of Bion and Hopper are reviewed for the sake of articulating clinical conceptualizations and related interventions.
Learning Objectives:
Identify and define the social unconscious.
Illustrate ways in which the foundation matrix impacts clinical work.
Describe Bion’s 3 basic assumptions about groups and Hopper’s fourth, and implement related interventions.
Articulate one clinical example of the tripartite matrix.
Presenter Biography:
Dr. Dale Godby is a founding member of the Group Analytic Practice of Dallas and was the fourth president of DSPP. He is Volunteer Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he is the three-time award winner of the Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award by the Psychiatry Residents Organization and is the recent recipient of the Paul C. Mohl Award for Excellence and Dedication in Psychotherapy Supervision. He has been a frequent co-host of the Workshop Reflective Citizens Koinonia by Koinonia-Art Belgrade, Serbia.
Dr. Melissa Black is a founding member of the Group Analytic Practice of Dallas and a past president of DSPP. In addition to her private practice, she has worked in clinical and research capacities with several Dallas area nonprofits in the area of homelessness. She is a Volunteer Clinical Professor at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in the Department of Psychiatry where she has won both Mentor of the Year and twice won the Outstanding Clinical teaching award. Dr Black has studied and presented on various topics of group and culture in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Melissa Wallace received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 2015, then continued her training with a psychiatric residency at UT Southwestern. During her residency, she taught medical student courses on pop culture's relationship to psychiatry, chaired the residency's literature and psychiatry committee, and received the John F. Hickman Award for Outstanding Resident in Psychiatry. After graduating in 2019, she joined the Group Analytic Practice of Dallas as an associate member and became a partner in 2023. She is volunteer faculty at UTSW, where she facilitates training groups and supervises group psychotherapy.
References:
Presenter/References/Reading (as applicable):
Hopper, E. (2023) Introduction. The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing
Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis: The Social
Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies. 1-16. London: Routledge.
Hopper, E. (2023) The tripartite matrix in Foulkesian Group
Analysis published as chapter 2 in The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing
Theory and Expanding Practice of Groups Analysis: The Social Unconscious in
Persons, Groups and Societies: Volume 4, 35-44. London: Routledge.
Pena, C. (2023). From crowd psychology to the dynamics of large groups:
Historical, theoretical, and practical considerations. London and New
York: Routledge.
Rioch, M. J. (1970). The work of Wilfred Bion on Groups, Psychiatry, 33, 56-66.
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