ETTIN, Mark F. ; COHEN, Bertram D. "Working through a psychotherapy group’s political cultures"

repression* bibliographiePhilosophy. Subjectivité psychiatry

International journal of group psychotherapy (2003) 53 (4) : 479-504
The authors want to change authoritarian or anarchistic individuals into liberal and social democrats.
They interpret the macropolitical evolution as having moved from authoritarian monarchism to anarchistic transitions which lead either to the totalitarianism of fascism and communism or to liberal and social democracy. This corresponds with a number of patterns in micropolitial therapy groups: "dependence" and "counterdependence" identify with monarchism and anarchism; "independence" and "interdependence" with liberal and social democracy, respectively.
Self-transformation of people into liberal and social democrats may be facilitated through group members’ cooperative experience of rebellion, or blocked by collective identification, the internalization of dystopian or Utopian fantasies that coalesce as "group-self" perceptions.