A peer reviewed journal article in the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy
Gabor, I. (2025). Dreams – the Alchemy of Groups: Jungian Reflections on Group Work. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2024.2429399
Jungian analytical psychology and group theories can mutually benefit and cross- fertilize each other. When incorporating Jungian ideas into group theory, the result enhances the way we can explore and understand projections. Encouraging the exploration of dreams that group members have about each other makes unconscious connections in the group accessible and can be expressed in group dialogue. A group is an ideal place for holding the tension of opposites within oneself as well as in projections onto others. The Jungian approach can help us explore group members’ main conflicts and entrenched patterns of relating, and guide them in self-reflection and resolving the patterns that act as obstacles to healing. This process eases polarization and encourages individuation, group members’ journey toward wholeness.
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An article Ildiko wrote for The Therapist, California’s MFT magazine, about group therapy, based on her conversation with Elaine Cooper, LCSW, AGPA Fellow. The article describes the healing effects of groups as a way to effectively shift hostility prevailing in scapegoating and other projective social processes.  Read the article here
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An article Ildiko wrote for The Therapist, California’s MFT magazine, about her experiences in the MOMS program, an intensive outpatient program for those struggling with perinatal mood disorders, mostly post partum depression. Ildiko worked with the mothers who were patients at the hospital and was instrumental in starting weekly groups for the partners of the mothers.
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