Admission and exclusion:

Mary Farrell

doi:10.9791/ajpanz.2004.10

Mary Farrell

DOI: https://doi.org/10.9791/ajpanz.2004.10

Abstract

The rules of belonging to a group can be clear and transparent or hidden and opaque. This paper examines some of the problems that can be experienced by members and provisional members of NZAP and draws analogies with Shakespeare's Hamlet. Of particular interest are the play's themes of protocol, power, betrayal and hypocrisy and how they can affect large group interaction. The pain and shame of self-consciousness and of feeling excluded can result in continuing difficulties when we meet together in large groups.

Author Biography

Mary Farrell

As recorded in 2004.

Mary Farrell works full-time as an intersubjective psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice in Mt Eden, Auckland. She is a full member of NZAP. Her first career was as a theatre director and lecturer in theatre studies in the UK. She completed her training as a psychotherapist fourteen years ago, immigrated to New Zealand in 1995 and lives in Titirangi with her husband and their 13-year-old son. She is also an author, and her stories, articles and poems have been published in various magazines and newspapers over the years, and broadcast on the BBC and National Radio. Her first full-length book Acts of Trust will be published in 2005 by Exisle Press.

Admission and exclusion

The hidden rules

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Author Biography