The Bulletin of the Institute of Group Analysis “S.H. Foulkes” is already a reality. It aims to inform about the work of the Institute, but also to transmit the group-analytic tradition, as Foulkes put it, as an empirical situation in which theories are constantly put under observation and revision. The many years of work and experience of the Institute’s members provide a solid basis for dialogue, reflection and development on the theory and clinical practice of group-analytic psychotherapy. Sometimes motivated by a globally difficult external reality, as has happened in the past and as is happening today with Covid-19, presented by Nikos Lamnidis and Domini Mylonas. A reality that, in its many difficulties, has finally allowed, with the help of technology, the continuation of the IOAF’s work, beyond the postponement of the 1st Conference scheduled for March 2021: the Introductory Seminar, Training and Supervision, presented respectively by the responsible persons, Lena Teliani, Dominique Mylonas and Amalia Stamataki. The work of the IOAF is also enriched by presentations at the Introductory Seminar, such as the one by Amalia Stamataki on “Group Analysis: A Historical Retrospective”, by trainees’ papers, such as that of Maria Lykou on “Group Initiation” and by articles, such as that of Sophia Maria Moraitou on “Group Supervision” and Nikos Lamnidis on “Unconscious (Dynamic) Processes in the Ancient Greeks”. The dialogue continues to be fruitful. Both within Greece with the two Interdisciplinary Symposia in Ancient Dodona, in collaboration with Historians and Archaeologists coordinated and presented by Fotis Yiotakis and Martina Britsa, and within and outside Greece with the two Intercultural Symposia in Athens and Cologne with German and Greek group analysts presented by Athena Tsukali. And it is only the beginning. Issue 1.
Katerina Miliou
