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No. 2 (2024): Comunità nella clinica e nella contemporaneità

The group rethinks the group. An interprofessional dialogue on group processes within institutions

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/gruoa2-2024oa22932
Submitted
maggio 27, 2026
Published
2026-06-17

Abstract

The paper arises from the experience of an interprofessional study group in the socio-healthcare field, conceived not only as an object of observation but as a generative device for thinking. The article develops from the material emerging in the reports of the group meetings, taking the group’s dialogue as the original thread guiding the thematic development. Participants’ experiences, questions, and tensions are progressively reorganized by the authors into an interpretative framework that intertwines group, institutional, and organizational dimensions. Within this process, issues such as professionals’ feelings of impotence, the fragmentation of teamwork, professional boundaries, and the hegemony of organizational and care models oriented toward standardization and quantification are explored. The authors argue that it is essential to start from the concept of a dynamic group matrix – understood as a generative relational field that precedes and organizes interactions among professions – in order to subsequently address the notion of interprofessional practice.

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