Anna Zajenkowska, PhD, is Adjunct Professor and manages the Department of Social Psychology and Doctoral School of the Maria Grzegorzewska Pedagogical University in Warsaw. She is a trained group analyst and board member of the IGAR (Institute of Group Analysis RASZTÓW). She has previously studied and worked in corporations in Austria, Korea and Poland.

Uri Levin is a clinical psychologist, group analyst and organizational consultant. He is a board member of the EFPP (European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy). He teaches at the Tel Aviv University and supervises both in individual and group settings. He works mainly at his private practice in Tel Aviv with adults and adolescents.

Foreword by Morris Nitsun

Acknowledgements

Europe on the couch: the breaking of a homogeneous group illusion, Anna Zajenkowska and Uri Levin

Part One: General reflections

1. Aleida Assmann - Learning from history? The crisis and future of the European Project
2. Maria Eugenia Cid Rodriguez - A way of seeing some effects of globalisation and new technologies in Europe
3. Marianna Fotaki - Relationality in the age of neoliberal dispossession: protecting the "other"
4. Anna Zajenkowska and Uri Levin - My Europe: a continent between rejection and re-inclusion: a discussion with Dr. Robi Friedman

Part Two: Particular understanding

5. Haim Weinberg - The image of Europe in the social unconscious of Israeli Jews
6. Ziad Abou Saleh and Bogdan de Barbaro - Poland and the other - the other and Poland: a dialogue between a newcomer and a native
7. Regine Scholz - The German "Welcoming Culture" - some thoughts about its psychodynamics
8. Thor Kristian Island - Norway: between grandiosity and inferiority
9. Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee - Far from the madding crowd: pre to post Brexit Britain
10. Shmuel Bernstein - Will Brexit brake the EU?

Part Three: Practical interventions

11. M. Gerard Fromm - National nightmare: thoughts on the genesis and legacy of perpetrator trauma
12. Katarzyna Prot-Klinger and Krzysztof Szwajca - Social memory of the Holocaust in Poland
13. Marie-Luise Alder and Stephan Alder - Negotiation between three ambivalently connected nations: finding common ground through metaphors in multinational large group sessions
14. Marina Mojovic - The Balkans on the Reflective-Citizens couch unraveling social-psychic-retreats
15. Gila Ofer - Europe on the couch in Social Dreaming Matrices