Beschouwingen over regressie op afdelingsniveau

This article illustrates how the psychiatrist can recognize the beginning of regression in a psychiatric service. A psychoanalytic training can help to detect the first symptoms rapidly.
A bad work climate may be caused by regression of the task group to ‘basic assumption groups’ and to the unstructured large group. This clinical experience has been related to the work of Kernberg (1998) and Bion.