Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy
This work presents a connection and an interpretation between psychotherapy and anthropology studies considering a common field in the experience of the ritual as a process of transformation and the rituality of the setting. Based on the assumption that the ritual is the set and the setting is the r...
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| description | This work presents a connection and an interpretation between psychotherapy and anthropology studies considering a common field in the experience of the ritual as a process of transformation and the rituality of the setting. Based on the assumption that the ritual is the set and the setting is the representation of it, in terms of creation and observation of foundation myth, we can observe the complexity inside the therapeutic relation and the function of imaginary, the matrix and myth, as well as reflect on them.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b6487b0bc0f41d1ba5d04937c2bc9a42025-03-12T16:59:30ZengInternational Association for Group PsychotherapyForum for Group Psychotherapies and Processes3079-60672024-09-011210.56217/forum.vol12.77Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapyRaffaele Menarini0https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1546-4702Domenico Agresta1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2784-541XCentro Studi di Psicologia e Psicosomatica Clinica – Pescara, Italy.Centro Studi di Psicologia e Psicosomatica Clinica – Pescara, Italy.This work presents a connection and an interpretation between psychotherapy and anthropology studies considering a common field in the experience of the ritual as a process of transformation and the rituality of the setting. Based on the assumption that the ritual is the set and the setting is the representation of it, in terms of creation and observation of foundation myth, we can observe the complexity inside the therapeutic relation and the function of imaginary, the matrix and myth, as well as reflect on them. https://forum.iagp.com/revista/article/view/77RitualIconsGroupsImaginaryMyth |
| spellingShingle | Raffaele Menarini Domenico Agresta Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy Forum for Group Psychotherapies and Processes Ritual Icons Groups Imaginary Myth |
| title | Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy |
| title_full | Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy |
| title_short | Rituals, icons, and imaginary: a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy |
| title_sort | rituals icons and imaginary a dialogue between anthropology and psychotherapy |
| topic | Ritual Icons Groups Imaginary Myth |
| url | https://forum.iagp.com/revista/article/view/77 |
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