title: Group Analytic Psychotherapy in Brazil.
abstract: Group analytic practice in Brazil began quite early. Highly influenced by the Argentinean Pichon-Rivière, it enjoyed a major development from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Beginning in the 1970s, different factors undermined its development and eventually led to its steep decline. From the mid 1980s on, the number of people looking for either group analytic psychotherapy or group analytic training decreased considerably. Group analytic psychotherapy societies struggled to survive and most of them had to close their doors in the 1990s and the following decade. Psychiatric reform and the new public health system have stimulated a new demand for groups in Brazil. Developments in the public and not-for-profit sectors, combined with theoretical and practical research in universities, present promising new perspectives for group analytic psychotherapy in Brazil nowadays.
authors.affiliation: Psychoanalyst and group analyst in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a past president of the Brazilian Association of Group Psychotherapy and Group Analytic Psychotherapy Society of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Penna
authors.affiliation: Group analyst and assistant professor at the Psychology Institute of the University of São Paulo. He is a former vice president of the Latin American Federation of Group Analytic Psychotherapy (FLAPAG).
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Castanho
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000458:organization & administration; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration