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By Juan Tubert-Oklander

This quantity is a radical advent to operative teams. It starts off by way of guiding the reader throughout the rules of Pichon-Riviere, who conceived operative teams as a complete frame of mind and performing in teams, after which exhibits how the 2 colleges of staff research - the British and the Latin-American - coincide and inter-relate, laying off mild at the thought at the back of either and together with priceless case fabric of varied varieties of teams to demonstrate such conception.

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So, one of the main tasks that a group has to face is to build a common group CROS. We shall now analyze each of the terms included in the CROS concept. In this we shall try to stick to Pichon-Rivière’s ideas, while our own concepts will be expounded in Chapter 3. ‘Schema’ Why ‘schema’? Pichon-Rivière does not clarify his choice of the term. , or the manner of its arrangement’. Apparently, Pichon-Rivière was using the term to refer to a complex structure of interrelated ideas that served to orient perception, thinking and action.

The group’s task is no longer being split off from the discussion, but it undergoes an internal split that blocks any progress. Interpretations at this stage try to show the splitting process and its motives, and help the group to perceive the partiality and complementariness of the apparent opposites. When this split is finally solved, the group enters the problem stage, in which it can approach the task from new and diverse points of view, thus bringing about a new creativity. Now the members are able to define the question in workable terms, use all available information, cooperate in the discussion instead of wasting their efforts in sterile confrontations, identify 42 OPERATIVE GROUPS the variables and options, check them against their resources, and finally arrive at a decision, which opens the way to the final stage.

This helps us to tackle the concrete situation that is to be inquired or solved. 7) Although Pichon-Rivière never says this explicitly, we believe that this concept is implicitly related to that of the ‘body schema’. He had been writing and teaching about this concept during the 1940s and 1950s (Pichon-Rivière 1971b), and theorizing about it. He had been impressed by Schilder’s (1935) definition of the body schema as ‘the three-dimensional image that each of us has of himself ’, and includes a new dimension in it: time, so that it becomes ‘the four-dimensional image’ (Pichon-Rivière 1959).

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