Preventing the crisis by analysing the conflicts

Abstract

This text aims to remind those who, like us, belong to groups and institutions that support us and to which we contribute with our ideals and purposes the need to understand in all their complexity the real and imaginary factors that, in this realm, far from structuring us as psychic and social subjects, expose us to situations producing intense pain and pathology. The various trends of clinical psychosociology approaching these issues, either from the viewpoint of training or from the viewpoint of intervention/research, provide tools largely experimented on the ground that ensure a collective and regular reflection on the phenomena inherent to collective life expressing conflicts. From our theoretical-methodological perspective, this state of disturbance is not, and should not be, entirely possible to eliminate. It is necessary to analyse it to prevent it from exceeding tolerable levels, both for the human psyche and for the operation of the organization. Otherwise, latent conflicts will escalate and give way to crises which may in some cases lead to radical changes in a beneficial direction while in others resulting in the destruction of the whole bond, but always at the peril of individual suffering and psychic health.