Conflicts and Alliances in a Spinal Cord Injury Community: Premises for a Good Rehabilitation

When we debate about a group, we should think about it as a dynamic process, rather than something static. This process includes group dynamics, psychological and personal experiences that are the essence of the group itself. Members of a group share a certain dose of cohesion, which is the degree of solidarity among themselves [1]. Socialisation is an important aspect of microsociological reality, and it has the following purposes: a) to achieve a level of security offered by the membership to the group that allows avoiding a high level of anxiety when exploring new contexts; b) control of the dynamics of guilt because the paternal super-ego turns into a more controlled group super-ego; c) the acceleration of learning processes because the group represents a continuous feedback through the comparison with the other members, and therefore it’s a mean to learn what results are achieved time after time; d) increasing the efficiency and functionality of the defences because, according to the “law of success” within the group, there should be a boost of the mechanisms that have a positive effect, while those that have failed in their purposes should be abandoned; e) the changing in the intellectual development because of the existence of a relationship between intellectual processes and language, and between language and communication which is enhanced in the group; f) the facilitation of the emotional maturity in the group, compared to the isolated condition [2].