A History of the IAGP: Facts and Findings

1
^{S.H. Foulkes

(1970). "The Symposium in retrospect: An introduction to the discussion

in GAIPAC" (GR/AN 4/1 1971). This Symposium had been called by Edoardo

Corteçao, Foulkes' disciple and founder of the Sociedade Portuguesa de

Groupanálise, with the aim of comparing the theory and techniques taught

and practiced there with those put forth by the Group Analytic Society (London).

This initiative gave rise to the face-to-face encounters between European groupanalysts:

the Symposiums, once every three years, and the annual European Workshops.}

2
^{Werner W. Kemper,

"A short contribution to the history of analytic psychotherapy and G.A.I.P.A.C.",

GR/AN VIII/3, October 1975, p. 175 and S.H. Foulkes "In Memoriam of Dr.

Werner W. Kemper", GR/AN IX/1, October 1976, p. 66.}

3
^{S.H. Foulkes

and E.J. Anthony (1964), "Psychoanalytic group psychotherapy"

Buenos Aires: PAIDOS.}

4
^{S.H. Foulkes

and E.J. Anthony (1965), "Group Psychotherapy. The psychoanalytic approach".

London: Penguin, p.18.}

5
^{The Lifwynn Foundation

for Research in Social and Analytical Psychiatry is the oldest group-analytic

organization, founded in 1927 by Trigant Burrow and his associates; it did not

join the IAGP until 1992 after it was invited to do so by the recently founded

Groupanalysis Section.}

6
^{The Group Analytic

Society (London) is a scientific association founded in 1952 by Foulkes and

a group of disciples and collaborators "with the purpose of exchanging

ideas on groupanalysis and expanding the teaching and training tasks carried

out by Dr. Foulkes at the Maudsley Hospital".}

7
^{During the Congress

in Toronto (1954) Foulkes, together with Joshua Bierer, Henry Ezriel and T.P.

Rees, had been proposed as representatives of Great Britain in the International

Committee for Group Psychotherapy. See photocopy of original document "The

position of Group Analysis (Group Analytic Psychotherapy) to-day, with special

reference to the role of this Society", presidential address of S. H. Foulkes

read 31st January, 1955, on the occasion of the First General Meeting of the

Society, p.2.}

8
^{Document mentioned

in footnote 9, p. 3-4. Also, abstracts of Foulkes' presidential address mentioned

in footnote 9 have been published in News and Views Nº 1 (summer 1961),

pp. 6-10, and "S. H. Foulkes. Selected Papers. Psychoanalysis and Group

Analysis," London 1990: Karnac Books, pp. 145-150.}

9
^{Article X.-SECTIONS:

The Board of Directors may in its discretion establish temporary or continuing

sections based on specialized interest, in order to serve the purpose of the

Association and to provide for cooperation in the organization of congresses.

Under such conditions as the Board may set up, sections may organize for their

internal cooperation in ways consistent with the organization of the International

Association and its brad purposes. The range of sections will depend upon present

and future needs. Action to initiate a section may be initiated by an application

to the Board signed by twenty-five or more members of the Association.}

10
^{The first paragraph

of the original proposal literally states: "Ever since 1970, and specially

since 1980 an important number of group-analysts, individual members of our

Association, have been trying to establish an international network of communication

in order to further develop the work that in favor of the development of Group

Analysis in theory and practice they perform in their local or national societies,

institutes and organizations."}

11
^{Documents related

to Correspondence and Reports relative to the Groupanalysis Section 1987-97.}

12
^{Documents related

to the history of the "European Movement of Groupanalysis 1981-1987".}

13
^{These quotes

have been taken from "The President's Page" of the International Forum

of Group Psychotherapy, Fall 1995, Vol. 4, No. 1, p.1 and p. 3, ratifying what

was read during the Assembly in Buenos Aires. "The shift to elected coordintaing

committees reflects my view that the growth of our organization, if not its

very survival, depends on how we manage the twin process of unity and diversity.

The potential for creative dialogue is high. It is noteworthy that in this respect

the request of the membership of the organization as a whole are identical to

the Boards initiatives: let us continue to work together and to share our ideas

and basic values and orientation but let us have our own spaces for the development

of distinctive identities and special interests".}

14
^{These quotes

have been taken from "The President's Page" of the International Forum

of Group Psychotherapy, Fall 1995, Vol. 4, No. 1, p.1 and p. 3, ratifying what

was read during the Assembly in Buenos Aires.}

15
^{Letter from Grete

Leutz in apology.}

16
^{Minutes of the

October 1984 Board Meeting of IAGP in Paris.}

17
^{H.V. Dicks (1970)

"59 years of the Tavistock Clinic", Routledge and Kegan Paul. The

expression "invisible college" is used to refer to the men of the

Tavistock Clinic whom its director, J.R. Rees as General Brigade of the Psychiatric

Services, managed to bring together during WW II and which, after the war, was

applied to the members of the voluntary organization "The Tavistock Association"

(pp. 228).}

18
^{Juan Campos Avillar

(1984), "From the politics of teaching to the pragmatics of learning: group

analysis' greatest hope in training". Zagreb: VI European Group Analytic

Symposium, publicado en inglés y croata en la revista Psihoterapija,

Vol. XV, No. 2, 1985, pp.53-93.}

19
^{Juan Campos (1980),

"Psicoanálisis, psicoanalistas y psicoterapias grupales" in

Psicología Dinámica Grupal, Madrid: Fundamentos.}

20
^{Correspondence

and documentation relative to the Panel of the 1989 IAGP Congress in Amsterdam

entitled "Pioneers' Re-encounter: The Fathers of our Constitution in a

Fishbowl".}

21
^{A. James Anthony

(1971): "The History of Group Psychotherapy" in Comprehensive

Group Psychotherapy, Kaplan, Harold I. & Saddock, J., eds., (Baltimore:

The Williams and Wilkins Co.), p. 5.}

22
^{Zerka Moreno

(1966), "Evolution and Dynamics of the Group Psychotherapy Movement",

in The International Handbook of Group Psychotherapy, ed. J.L. Moreno

in association with A. Friedemann, R. Battegay and Zerka T. Moreno, New York:

Philosophical Library, pp. 27-128.}

23
^{Samuel B. Hadden

(1984), "Historical Sketch of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy",

Membership Directory, March, pp. 6-8.}