
This is a case study of group work among professional colleagues, commissioned by the COIRAG institution. The duration of the course was six meetings held monthly. Two objectives were given: one scientific and cultural, namely to share clinical practices among members, the other political, namely to extend the network of relationships with other mental health institutions. Given the breadth of the mandate, it proceeded operationally by adopting the criterion of gradualness. A specific working method was adopted regarding the setting: a group activator, a reporter who would keep written records, an observer of the transferal dynamics and an observer of the specific skills of the group members. Five specific themes that emerged directly from the group participants were focused on and elaborated. We mainly wondered whether or not the psychoanalytic paradigm, which is based on the invariable method of free associations, would be responsive to current social change.