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What kind of group therapy is most therapeutic, and for whom? In the second of several blog posts about the power of group therapy, Group Analyst and Arts Psychotherapist Anthea Benjamin compares her work facilitating groups formed around sameness and those formed around difference – and considers how homogeneous and heterogeneous groups can variously function to facilitate ego development, address oppression and afford new experiences of identification.

Why group analysis? And why now? With interest on the rise amongst clients and referrers, Group Analyst and Arts Psychotherapist Anthea Benjamin offers the first of several blog posts on this powerful mode of therapy – reflecting on the role of group analysis in healing relational wounding, addressing issues related to power, privilege and oppression, emphasising the formative nature of community and bringing us back into connection.

Pat Ogden on the impact of trauma on protective responses, tracking truncated action in the tiniest of movements, and how we can work through the body to both process the past and resource for the present. Part 2 in our new PESI UK Blog series, Free Clinical Conversations: An Hour With an Expert.

Why are some client communities still being referred to as ‘hard to reach’? This framing says much about therapy’s inadequate reckoning with structural oppression, and limited understanding of what access to therapy services – and indeed therapy trainings – really means. Myira Khan, founder of the Muslim Counselling and Psychotherapist Network and author of the forthcoming Working Within Diversity, explains why we must move beyond talk of ‘inclusion’– and shares some key pointers for anti-oppressive practice.