%0 Journal Article
%T The problem of romance in an analytic group
%A Yael Doron
%J Group Analysis
%@ 1461-717X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0533316418766671
%X The phenomenon of two participants falling in love in a group and continuing this love outside the group is not so rare, despite the ¡®law¡¯ explicitly forbidding personal contacts in between the group sessions. In this article, I wish to argue that a romance in a group should not be seen only as a phenomenon that occurs between two participants, but also as a transpersonal symptom of the group, a matrix event, and a special sort of ¡®relations disorder¡¯. As such, it binds the whole dynamic matrix and should be deciphered, processed and also understood at the group level. When this kind of romance develops in the group, it may lead to a serious crisis in the group, but it can also become an opportunity for individual participants, as well as for the group as a whole, including the conductor, to develop
%K ¡®relations disorder¡¯
%K transpersonal
%K love
%K sexuality
%K subgroup
%K ¡®matrix event¡¯
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0533316418766671