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August 19, 2026Group Analysis0 citations

Decolonising and Queering Group Analysis: Repairing Cultural Mega Containers

Decolonising and queering group analysis and psychotherapy: The Indigenous Father and the repair of Cultural Mega Containers

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Overview

Theoretical analysis explores colonial trauma in group psychotherapy, suggesting strategies to repair the shared analytic matrix for racialised and queer individuals.

Key Points

  • To examine how colonial and heteronormative trauma impacts the group analytic matrix and introduce theoretical frameworks to support the psychic repair of racialised and queer individuals.
  • Integrated decolonial, psychoanalytic, queer, and group analytic theoretical frameworks.
  • Analyzed clinical vignettes to illustrate dynamics of scapegoating, splitting, and projective identification in group therapy settings.
  • Identified colonial violence and the symbolic erasure of Indigenous kinship structures as direct disruptions to collective group matrices and symbolic capacities.
  • Introduced the Melanised Psychic Skin as an adaptive, defensive structure developed by racialised and queer subjects to process hostile projections within the social unconscious.
  • Showed that scapegoating and enactments in groups represent systemic matrix trauma rather than individual pathology, requiring attuned symbolic containment by the conductor.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a85636403308d306e2d6774https://doi.org/10.1177/05333164261469543
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