The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis.
The webinar explores the social unconscious in persons, groups and societies in terms of the “un-acknowledged” restraints and constraints of our social and cultural groupings. In this event, Earl Hopper, Dieter Nitzgen and Carla Penna elucidate the theory and the concept of tripartite matrix as a tool for a deeper understanding of the human condition and for clinical work. This event will be of great interest to group analysts, psychoanalytical group therapists, psychoanalysts and psycho-dramatists, as well as to social scientists and to students.
Hopper, E. (ed.) (2024). The Tripartite Matrix in the Developing Theory and Expanding Practice of Group Analysis. The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies. Volume 4. London: Routledge.

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcO6hrzsuGtYRSqlYpmyS03EcBXVkw8hq

About the speakers:
Earl Hopper – Presenter “The Tripartite Matrix in Foulkesian Group Analysis”
Earl Hopper, PhD is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, certified group psychotherapist, and organisational consultant in private practice in London. He is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, an honorary member of the Institute of Group Analysis (UK), an honorary member of the Group Analytic Society International, and a distinguished fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. A supervisor and training analyst for several organisations in the UK and a member of the Faculty of the Post-Doctoral Program at Adelphi University, New York. A former president of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), and a former chairman of the Association of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. The author and editor of many books and articles in psychoanalysis, group analysis and sociology, he is the editor of the New International Library of Group Analysis (NILGA) for Routledge.
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Dieter Nitzgen – presenter The Cornerstone, Once More
Dieter Nitzgen, MA , is a group analyst, a training group analyst and supervisor for the Institute of Group Analysis in Heidelberg and the German Society of Group Analysis and Group psychotherapy ( D3G). He is a former member of the Association of Freudian Psychoanalysis (AFP), the former head of the Department of Psychotherapy and Rehaklinik Birkenbuck, a former Foulkes Lecturer and the former editor of Group Analysis.
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Carla Penna – Presenter Transference, Countertransference and the Social Unconscious: the bastion in clinical work 
Carla Penna, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and group analyst in Brazil. She is a member of the Group Analytic Society International and a member of the Analytic Group Section Committee of IAGP. She is a past president of the Brazilian Group Psychotherapy Association and past president of the Group Analytic Psychotherapy Society of the State of Rio de Janeiro. She published in 2014, in Portuguese the book Inconsciente Social [Social Unconscious] and in 2023 published From Crowd Psychology to Dynamics of Large Groups: Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations, by Routledge.
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