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Number of Lecture	Date of Lecture	Author of Lecture / response	Title of Lecture / response	Citation
42^nd	2018	Robi Friedman	The 42^ndS.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Beyond rejection, glory and the soldier’s matrix: the heart of my group analysis	Group Analysis, Dec 2018 Vol. 51; pp. 389 – 405
42^nd	2018	David Armstrong	Response: Echoes and registers: a response to Robi Friedman’s Foulkes Lecture 2018	Group Analysis, Dec 2018 Vol. 51; pp. 407 - 412
42^nd	2018	Tove Mathieson	Response:	Group Analysis, Dec 2018 Vol. 51; pp. 413 - 419
42^nd	2018	Holger Branes	Response:	Group Analysis, Dec 2018 Vol. 51; pp.420 - 425
41^st	2017	Sylvia Hutchinson	The 41^st S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: The times they are a-changing: evolving group analytic identity	Group Analysis, Dec 2017 Vol. 50; pp.419 - 435
41^st	2017	David Vincent	Response The times they are a-changing: evolving group analytic identity’ Who is being group analytic ?	Group Analysis, Dec 2017 Vol. 50; pp.436 - 443
41^st	2017	Kurt Husemann	Response to 41^st Foulkes Lecture by Sylvia Hutchinson	Group Analysis, Dec 2017 Vol. 50; pp.444 - 455
40^th	2016	Haim Weinberg	The 40^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Impossible groups that flourish in leaking containers: challenging group analytic theory	Group Analysis, Dec 2016; Vol. 49; pp.
40^th	2016	Gerda Winther	Response	Group Analysis, Dec 2016; Vol. 49; pp.
39^th	2015	John Schlapobersky	The 39^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: On making a home amongst strangers: the paradox of group psychotherapy	Group Analysis, Dec 2015; Vol. 48; pp.406-432
39^th	2015	Gwen Adshead	Response Strangers and Angels: a response to John Schlapobersky’s Foulkes Lecture, May 2015	Group Analysis, Dec 2015; Vol. 48; pp. 432 - 446
39^th	2015	Wotton, Linde	Response Improvising a home amongst strangers	Group Analysis, Dec 2015; Vol. 48; pp. 447 - 454
39^th	2015	Mies, Thomas	Response Some notes about a responsive phenomenology. A response to John Schlapobersky ‘On making a home amongst strangers’	Group Analysis, Dec 2015; Vol. 48; pp. 455-464
38^th	2014	Elisabeth Rohr	The 38th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Intimacy and Social Suffering in a Globalized World	Group Analysis, Dec 2014; vol. 47: pp. 365-383
38^th	2014	Dick Blackwell	Response to Elisabeth Rohr’s Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2014; vol. 47: pp. 384-391
38^th	2014	Farhad Dalal	Response: A Rumination on Intimacy and its Defences in the Consulting Room: A Response to Elizabeth Rohr's 38th Foulkes Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2014; vol. 47: pp. 392-407
38^th	2014	Gila Ofer	Response: The personal, the relational the group and the social in a globalized world – a perspective through working with dreams	Group Analysis, Dec 2014; vol. 47: pp. 408-419
37th	2013	Tom Ormay	The 37th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: One Person is No Person	Group Analysis, Dec 2013; vol. 46: pp. 344-368
37^th	2013	Angela Sordano	The Roots of Human Dialogue: the 'Nos' between Instinct and Evolution. A Response to Tom Ormay's Foulkes Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2013; vol. 46: pp. 375-385
37^th	2013	Kevin Power	Vote of Thanks and Response to Tom Ormay's Foulkes Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2013; vol. 46: pp. 369-374
37^th	2013	Linde Wotton	Response: Concerto for Group Analysis	Group Analysis, Dec 2013; vol. 46: pp. 386-394
37^th	2013	Dieter Nitzgen	Response: on the location of Nos	Group Analysis, Dec 2013; vol. 46: pp. 395-406
37^th	2013	Dick Blackwell	Response: Locating ‘Nos’ in the dialectics of instinct, communication and society	Group Analysis, Dec 2013; vol. 46: pp. 407-414
36^th	2012	Farhad Dalal	The 36^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Specialists without spirit: sensualists without heart: psychotherapy as a moral endeavor	Group Analysis, Dec 2012; vol. 45: pp. 405-429
36^th	2012	Avi Berman	'The Bad Enough Group Analyst': Authenticity and Emotional Responsiveness in Group Analysis'. A Response to Farhad Dalal's Foulkes Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2012; vol. 45: pp. 437-449
36^th	2012	Miriam Berger	'Thy Brother's Keeper': Witnessing as a Moral Presence in Group Analysis and Beyond. A Response to Farhad Dalal's Foulkes Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2012; vol. 45: pp. 459-471
36^th	2012	Kevin Power	A Response to Farhad Dalal's Foulkes Lecture, 11th May 2012	Group Analysis, Dec 2012; vol. 45: pp. 472-480
36^th	2012	Sylvia Hutchinson	Response to Lecture by Farhad Dalal	Group Analysis, Dec 2012; vol. 45: pp. 430-436
35^th	2011	Sigmund Karterud	The 35^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Constructing and mentalizing the matrix	Group Analysis, Dec 2011; vol. 44: pp.357-373
35^th	2011	Peter Fonagy	Response [referred to by Burman: not printed]	Untraced in journal
35^th	2011	Erica Burman	Environ-mentalizing the Matrix: Commentary on Sigmund Karterud's 35th Foulkes Annual Lecture	Group Analysis, Dec 2011; vol. 44: pp. 374-384
34^th	2010	Jane Campbell	The 34^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: The Islands of the Blest	Group Analysis, Dec 2010; vol. 43: pp. 413-432
34^th	2010	Sue Einhorn	Response Response to a love letter: May 2010	Group Analysis, Dec 2010, vol. 43: pp.433-439
34^th	2010	Bente Thygesen	The Islands of the Blest or Fahrenheit 451. Response to Lecture by Jane Campbell	Group Analysis, Dec 2010; vol. 43: pp. 440-449
34^th	2010	Steinar Lorenzten	Some Ideas on How Group Analysis Can Survive: Response to Lecture by Jane Campbell	Group Analysis, Dec 2010; vol. 43: pp. 450-464
33^rd	2009	Morris Nitsun	The 33^rd S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Authority and revolt: the challenges of group leadership	Group Analysis, Dec 2009; vol. 42: pp. 325-348
33rd	2009	Glyn David	Feeling for Authority: Responses to Issues Raised in the 2009 Annual Foulkes Lecture	Group Analysis, Mar 2010; vol. 43: pp. 90-93
33^rd	2009	Sylvia Hutchinson	Foulkesian Authority: Another View. Response to Lecture by Morris Nitsun	Group Analysis, Dec 2009; vol. 42: pp. 354-360
33^rd	2009	Wil Pennycook	Response to Lecture by Morris Nitsun	Group Analysis, Dec 2009; vol. 42: pp. 349-353
32^nd	2008	Dieter Nitzgen	The 32^nd S. H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: The group analytic movement sixty years on: revisiting Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy by S. H. Foulkes	Group Analysis, Dec 2008; vol. 41: pp. 325-346
32^nd	2008	Liesel Hearst	Response to lecture by Dieter Nitzgen	Group Analysis, Dec 2008; vol. 41: pp. 347-351
31^st	2007	Gerhard Wilke	The 31^st S. H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Second generation perpetrator symptoms in groups	Group Analysis, Dec 2007; vol. 40: pp. 429-447
31^st	2007	Anne Lindhardt	Response to Lecture by Gerhard Wilke	Group Analysis, Dec 2007; vol. 40: pp. 448-456
31^st	2007	Dieter Nitzgen	`Music from a Fa(r)ther Room': Response to Lecture by Gerhard Wilke	Group Analysis, Dec 2007; vol. 40: pp. 464-474
31^st	2007	Sue Einhorn	Transmission of trauma: response to lecture by Gerhard Wilke	Group Analysis, Dec 2007; vol. 40: pp. 457-463
30^th	2006	Victor Schermer	The 30^th S. H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Spirituality and group analysis	Group Analysis, Dec 2006; vol. 39: pp. 445-466
30^th	2006	Victoria Fuller	Response to lecture by Victor L Schermer	Group Analysis, Dec 2006; vol. 39: pp. 467-474
29^th	2005	Ralph Stacey	The 29^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Organizational identity: the paradox of continuity and potential transformation at the same time	Group Analysis, Dec 2005; vol. 38: pp. 477-495
29^th	2005	Malcolm Pines	Response to lecture by Ralph Stacey	Group Analysis, Dec 2005; vol. 38: pp. 495-498
28^th	2004	Ivan Urlic	The 28^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Trauma and reparation: mourning and forgiveness: the healing potential of the group	Group Analysis, Dec 2004; vol. 37: pp. 453-471
28^th	2004	Lord Alderdice	Response to lecture by Ivan Urlic	Group Analysis, Dec 2004; vol. 37: pp. 472-476
27^th	2003	Dick Blackwell	The 27^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Colonialism and globalization: a group-analytic perspective	Group Analysis, Dec 2003; vol. 36: pp. 445-463
27^th	2003	Okeke Azu-Okeke	Response to lecture by Dick Blackwell	Group Analysis, Dec 2003; vol. 36: pp. 465-476
26^th	2002	Vamik Volkan / Michael Lukas Moeller	The 26^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Part 1: September 11 and Societal Regression The 26^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Part 2: Love in the group	Group Analysis, Dec 2002; vol. 35: pp. 456-483;pp. 484-498
25^th	2001	Adele Mittwoch	The 25^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: Our place in the world of science: what is at stake ?	Group Analysis, Dec 2001; vol. 34: pp. 431-448
25^th	2001	Dennis Brown	Response to Lecture by Adele Mittwoch	Group Analysis, Dec 2001; vol. 34: pp. 449-453
24^th	2000	Felix de Mendelssohn	The 24^th S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: The Aesthetics of the Political in Group Analytic Process - the Wider Scope of Group Analysis	Group Analysis, Dec 2000; vol. 33: pp. 449-453
24^th	2000	Jane Campbell	Response to Lecture by Felix de Mendelssohn	Group Analysis, Dec 2000; vol. 33: pp. 459-468
23rd	1999	R D Hinshelwood	The 23^rd S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture: How Foulkesian was Bion ?	Group Analysis, Dec 1999; vol. 32: pp. 469-488
23^rd	1999	Sheila Ernst	Response to lecture by R D Hinshelwood	Group Analysis, Dec 1999; vol. 32: pp. 489-494
22^nd	1998	Dennis Brown	The 22^nd S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Foulkes’s Basic Law of Group Dynamics 50 Years On: Abnormality, Injustice and the Renewal of Ethics	Group Analysis, Dec 1998; vol. 31: pp.391-420
22^nd	1998	Elizabeth Foulkes	Response to lecture by Dennis Brown	Group Analysis, Dec 1998; vol. 31: pp. 426-428
22^nd	1998	Dick Blackwell	Response to Lecture by Dennis Brown	Group Analysis, Dec 1998; vol. 31: pp. 421-425
21^st	1997	Earl Hopper	The 21^st S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups	Group Analysis, Dec 1997; vol.30: pp.439-470
21^st	1997	Lionel Kreeger	Response to Lecture by Earl Hopper	Group Analysis, Dec 1997; vol. 30: pp. 471-474
20^th	1996	Estela V Welldon	The 20^th S.H. Foulkes Lecture: Let the treatment fit the crime: forensic group psychotherapy	Group Analysis, Mar 1997; vol. 30; pp. 9-26
19^th	1995	Lise Rafaelsen	The 19^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Projections, Where Do They Go?	Group Analysis, Jun 1995; vol.29: pp.143-158
19^th	1995	Malcolm Pines	Response to Lecture by Lise Rafaelsen	Group Analysis, Jun 1995; vol. 29: pp. 158-159
18^th	1994	J Stuart Whiteley	The 18^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Attachment, Loss and the Space Between: Personality Disorder in the Therapeutic Community	Group Analysis, Dec 1994, vol.27: pp. 359-383
17^th	1993	Saul Scheidlinger	The 17^th S.H. Foulkes Lecture: Training Groups and Therapy Groups	Group Analysis, Sep 1993; vol. 27: pp. 339-340
16^th	1992	Lionel C Kreeger	The 16^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Envy Preemption in Small and Large Groups	Group Analysis, Dec 1992, vol.25: pp.391-408
15^th	1991	Dorothy Stock Whitaker	The 15^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Transposing Learnings from Group Psychotherapy to Work Groups	Group Analysis, Jun 1992, vol.25; pp.131-149
14^th	1990	Murray Cox	The 14^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: The Group as Poetic Playground: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis	Untraced in journal [*]
13^th	1989	Claude Pigott	The 13^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Deep Truth, Madness and Paradox in Analytic Children’s Groups	Group Analysis, Jun 1990, vol. 23: pp.9-111
12^th	1988	Yvonne Agazarian	The 12^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: The Invisible Group: an Integrational Theory of Group-as-a-Whole	Group Analysis, Dec 1989, vol. 22: pp.355-369
11^th	1987	Karl König	The 11^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Transference in Groups-Internal Phantasy and External Reality	Group Analysis, Dec 1987, vol.20: pp. 291-305
10^th	1986	David Clark	The 10^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Group Analysis and the therapeutic community	Group Analysis, Mar 1987, vol. 20: pp.3-13
9^th	1985	Patrick de Maré	The 9^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Large group perspectives	Group Analysis, Aug 1985, vol. 18: pp.79-92
8^th	1984	A C Robin Skynner	The 8^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Institutes and How to Survive Them	Group Analysis, Aug 1984, vol.17: pp.91-107
7^th	1983	Heinz Wolff	The 7^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Mind-Body Interaction and the Psychotherapeutic Process	Group Analysis, Aug 1983, vol.16: pp.95-112
6^th	1982	Malcolm Pines	The 6^th S.H.Foulkes Lecture: Reflections on Mirroring [not online]	Group Analysis, Jun 1982; vol. 15: pp. S3-S26
5^th	1981	M L J Abercrombie	The 5th S.H. Foulkes Lecture: Beyond the Unconscious: Group Analysis Applied [not online]	Group Analysis, Aug 1981, vol.14: pp. S1-S16
4^th	1980	Morton A. Lieberman	The 4^th S.H. Foulkes Lecture: Group Therapy beyond the Therapy Group [not online]	Group Analysis, Aug 1980, vol.13: pp. S1-S14
3^rd	1979	Wilfred Abse	The 3^rd S.H. Foulkes Lecture: Some Complementary Functions of Group-Analytic Psychotherapy and Individual Psycho-Analysis [not online]	Group Analysis, Aug 1979, vol.12, pp. S1-S8
2^nd	1978	E James Anthony, Blanche F. Ittleson	The 2^nd S.H. Foulkes Lecture: The Group-Analytic Circle and its Ambient Network [online]	Group Analysis, Aug 1978, vol.11: pp. S1-S18
1st	1977	Tom Main	The 1^st S.H. Foulkes Lecture: The Concept of the Therapeutic Community: Variations and Vicissitudes [online]	Group Analysis, Aug 1977, vol.10: pp.S2-S16

Notes

[*] Exists as a ‘member publication’ in the IGA/GASi Library, at [IOS]COX, with the following abstract:

NB a guided Shakespeare reverie led by Clare Higgins (RSC and NT) formed the epilogue to the lecture, publication without which would be incomplete: it was thus decided to publish a synopsis and a full bibliography in 'Group Analysis' [sic: untraced] and to make the original recording available on audio tape. [op.cit.][see below]. The synopsis follows, resembling speaker's notes, comprising, introduction, personal contact with Foulkes, the words in the title: a closer look, poetry, the poet and the therapist, Freud, Foulkes, Winnicott, play, citing Winnicott, ground, play-ground, development of three Foulkesian themes: trusting the group, group levels: implications of the primordial level, the aesthetic imperative, forensic psychotherapy: relevance of group analytic psychotherapy, trusting the group, group levels, forensic psychotherapy: do deviant groups really differ or not ? one luxury, closure, guided Shakespearian reverie [by Clare Higgins, one of the original pioneers behind the scenes when the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre performed Hamlet and King Lear in Broadmoor [see 'Shakespeare comes to Broadmoor', ed. Cox, M. 1992].

Also extant, as a non-commercial audio-tape in the IGA/GASi Library, and as a commercial tape, 1993, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd., London,

Abstract: The 1990 S.H. Foulkes Annual Lecture, Friday 18th May 1990. Readings from Shakespeare by Claire Higgins, introduced by Terry Lear, then President of the Group-Analytic Society, vote of thanks by Janet Boakes, Chair of the Council of the Institute of Group Analysis. Comprises audio tape and booklet in case. Booklet provides introduction, synopsis and cites references. 'Sleeve note': this lecture explores some aspects of creativity, metaphor and language which are common the worlds of group analysis and poetry / drama. Both depend upon poesis - the calling into existence of that which was not there before - and responsive enactment. In group analysis such enactment may be intrapsychic or evident as changing energy levels within the group matrix. There is an elective affinity between the corporate resonance of the audience-as-a-whole and dynamic processes taking place within the group-as-a-whole. One of the aims of psychotherapy is to recall and integrate previously repressed experience. The integrative power of reclaimed affect within therapeutic space often energises the group matrix and 'surfaces' in poesis. This is particularly important in forensic psychotherapy. In the lecture the concept of omniference is introduced,: this is the all-carrying-allness of the group, including the conductor, which makes analysis not only tolerable and safe, but actually inviting. Group analysis and dramatic enactment both need an adequate play-ground, a space set aside in which it is safe to play. The lecture cites passages from Freud, Foulkes and Winnicott, which refer to the comparison between the work of the therapist and that of the creative artist. It develops three Foulkesian themes: first, trusting the group, second, consideration of group levels, with particular reference to the primordial level; third, the relevance of group analytic psychotherapy to forensic issues. Trustful witnessing pays equal attention to the individual members of the group and the group-as-a-whole. Group analysis aims to utilise the creative energy inherent in matrix and metaphor to bring about affective realignment, thereby resolving transference - thus attempting to achieve metamorphosis, through modification of intrapsychic structure. After a plea for constructive dialogue between theology and group-analytic concerns, the proceedings close with readings from Shakespeare on related themes.

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