What can Neuro-Psychoanalysis and Affective Neurosciences add to our Understanding of the Relational Dimensions of our Mind?

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1594812429087

• Palavras-chave: Mental Activity, Group Field, Group Analysis, Levels of Communication, Levels of Experiencing, Affective Neurosciences, Neuro-Psychoanalysis, Group Processes.

• Keywords: Mental Activity, Group Field, Group Analysis, Levels of Communication, Levels of Experiencing, Affective Neurosciences, Neuro-Psychoanalysis, Group Processes.

• Abstract:

  As group analysts and analytical group psychotherapists, we seek to understand how therapeutic and/or non-therapeutic groups will generate, create and express themselves through different levels of communication and interpersonal relationships, as well as at the transpersonal level (group field), which are deeply influenced and interdependent on the different personal and group matrices. The author will share with you some of his reflections on neuroscientific and neuropsychoanalytic contributions and updates regarding the current understanding of the functioning of the Human Mind, contributing to a better understanding of how group processes impact Individual Minds and the interaction styles of group members, based on proposals and contributions from several authors in Neuro-Psychoanalysis and Groupanalysis. The group is nothing more than a sounding board and an amplification of interactions between Individual Minds supported by the intuitions, deductions and assessments that each of the group members exposes in verbal and non-verbal communications articulated with the individual capacities to feel, empathize, interact and, finally, to understand and recognize.