Sylvia Hutchinson is a training group analyst and psychotherapist in private practice working with groups and individuals. She emigrated to the UK from South Africa in the late 60’s and trained and worked as a clinical psychologist in the NHS and university settings. Following further training, she has been working as a group analyst since the 1980s.
Alongside clinical practice, Sylvia Hutchinson has been actively involved in group-analytic training both on the Institute of Group Analysis (London) courses and as Co-director, therapist, supervisor and teacher on the Turvey Institute MSc Group Psychotherapy training. She is past chairperson of the European Group Analytic Training Institutions Network (EGATIN)
Select Publications:
“Psychic and social isolation” Ch.16, Group Analytic Therapists at Work eds. A. Noack and D. Vincent, pp 157-162, Routledge. (2023)
“The dynamics of the social unconscious at work in the therapy group” Chapter 9, Group Analytic Therapists at Work eds. A. Noack and D. Vincent, pp 84-95, Routledge. (2023)
41st Annual Foulkes Lecture: “The Times They Are A-Changing: Evolving Group Analytic Identity”. Published in Group Analysis, 2017, 50 (4): 419-435. (2017)
“Foulkesian Authority: Another View”. Response to Lecture by Morris Nitsun” in Group Analysis, 2009, Vol. 42(4) pp 354-360. (2009)
“Group Analysis” (with Malcolm Pines), chapter 2, Group Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice ed. A.Alonso and D. Swiller (American Psychiatric Press, 1993).
Work done as part of research team at Sussex University (1970-71); Published under the authorship of Dr. Rae Sherwood entitled “The Psychodynamics of Race: vicious and benign spirals” (Harvester, 1980)
