Das Mentalisieren des Körpers braucht den Gegenwartsmoment der Gruppe

Now moments can be experienced in psychotherapy groups and they are conveyed through the experience of the body especially in speaking and listening. Ulrich Schultz-Venrath‘s concept of “mentalizing the body” opens up a deeper understanding of subjective experience in groups. It fits logically into the concept of mentalization and contributes decisively to its further development. It also highlights the importance and enormous potential of psychodynamic group therapy, especially mentalization-based group therapy. In the present text, I explore the question of how we can imagine a mentalizing of the body or, in the case of such a failure, a subjective experience in the prementalistic body-mode and how this is interwoven with the ability to make social contact.