Robi Friedman, Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and emigrated to Israel at the age of thirteen. He has a private practice in Haifa, Israel; was the co-founder of and teacher at the Israel Institute for Group Analysis; and is the past president of the International Group Analytic Society.

Series Editor Foreword by Earl Hopper

General Introduction

PART ONE: Dreams and dreamers in relation and some research on Dreamtelling in families.

Introduction to Part One

Friedman, R (2008) Dreamtelling as a Request for Containment - Three Uses of Dreams in Group Therapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Vol. 58(3): 327-344.

Friedman, R (2006 a) The dream narrative as an interpersonal event - research results. funzionegamma. La Sapienza, University of Rome

Friedman,R.(2015) Using the Transpersonal in Dream-telling and Conflict. Group Analysis, 48(1) 1-16

PART TWO: Who is sick? About Pathology in relations

Introduction to Part Two

Friedman, R. (2007) Where to look? Supervising Group Analysis - A Relations Disorder Perspective. Group Analysis, Vol. 40(2):251-268, Sage

Friedman, R (2013) Individual or Group Therapy? Indications for Optimal Therapy. Group Analysis, 46: 164-170.

Friedman, R (2014) Group Analysis Today - Developments in Intersubjectivity. Group Analysis, 47(3) 194-200

PART THREE: The Soldier's Matrix or how to live with existential anxieties, trauma and hopes for glory. The encounter with conflict in communities through the Sandwich Model - a combination between small and large groups to.

Introduction to Part three

Friedman, R. (2015). A Soldier's Matrix: A Group Analytic View of Societies in War. Group Analysis, 48(3) 239-257

Friedman, R. (2016) The group sandwich model for international conflict using large groups as a social developmental space. In: S.S. Fehr (Ed) 101 Interventions in Group Psychotherapy (pp.83-85). New-York: Routledge. The 42nd Foulkes Lecture - May 2018

Friedman, R(2018) Beyond rejection, glory and the Soldier's Matrix: the heart of my group analysis. Group Analysis. 51(4)1-17