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Community Psychoanalysis is an ongoing and collaborative theory and practice being developed by the New York based Community Consulting Group (founding partners: Mark B. Borg, Jr., Ph.D. and Michael Dalla). Its primary task is to is to ask a series of questions—similar to Harry Stack Sullivan's (the co-founder, along with Erich Fromm and a handful of others, of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis) detailed inquiry —that challenge the conventional wisdom that psychoanalysis and community psychology are divergent approaches to psychological intervention. There are, of course, commonly held distinctions between the activities of community practitioners and analysts. For instance, psychoanalytic patients generally initiate their own engagement in the analytic process, but governmental, academic, and social-philanthropic bodies are often the initiators of community interventions, not the communities themselves. Community practitioners often participate in the daily lives of the community they are treating, while psychoanalysts do not participate with their analysands in such a way. Lastly, there is a component of didacticism to community treatment that would be considered very undesirable in psychoanalysis. How, therefore, can we consider community work psychoanalytic? Community psychoanalysis retains a strong emphasis on the unconscious, on understanding group level coping and defensive strategies, and on the analysis of transference-countertransference enactments. These are the primary research and practice questions that Community Psychoanalysis endeavors to answer.

Initially, CCG's founding partner, Dr. Borg, worked with Roger Mills, Ph.D. with the Health Realization/Community Empowerment project serving South Central, Los Angeles after the civil unrest in 1992. Numerous articles have been published by CCG members regarding this project, and numerous others. However, the South Central LA/Avalon Gardens project is the cornerstone project for developing the primary community psychoanalytic constructs: 1) Community Character, 2) Point-Of-Impact, 3) Transference/Countertransference Enactment (of Community Character Dynamics), 4) Project Groups. See Borg, Jr., M. B. (2002a). The Avalon Gardens Men’s Association: A Community Health Psychology Case Study. Journal of Health Psychology, 7 (3): 345-357. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2002b). The Psychoanalyst as Community Practitioner. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22 (2): 26-34. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003a). Atrocity Touring Psychoanalysis: A Case Study in Traumatic Enactment. Mind and Human Interaction, 13: 132-144. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003b). Community Group-Analysis: A Post-Crisis Synthesis. Group-Analysis, 36: 228-241. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003c). Observations from a World Trade Center Disaster Intervention. The Community Practitioner, 2 (1): 21-25. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003d). Psychoanalytic Pure War: Interactions with the Post-Apocalyptic Unconscious. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 8 (1): 57-67. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2004a). Community Intervention as Clinical Case Study. Clinical Case Studies, 3, 250-270. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2004b). Venturing Beyond the Consulting Room: Psychoanalysis in Community Crisis Intervention. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 40 (2): 147-174. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2005a). Community Analysis: A Case Study Examining Transference and Countertransference in Community Intervention. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 14 (1), 5-15. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2005b). Superblind: Supervising a Blind Therapist With a Blind Analysand in a Community Mental Health Setting. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 22 (1): 32-48. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2005c). A Zombie Storms the Meathouse: Approximating Living and Undergoing Psychoanalysis in a Palliative Care Culture. Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, 10 (1): 1-22. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2006). Engaging Diversity’s Underbelly: A Story From an Immigrant Parish Community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 37 (3/4): 191-202. Borg, Jr., M. B. (2007). Just Some Everyday Examples of Psychic Serial Killing: Psychoanalysis, Necessary Ruthlessness, and Disenfranchisement. In B. Willock, R. Curtis, & L. Bohm (Eds.) On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalyst’s Reflections On Finality, Transformations and New Beginnings (pp. 180-195). London: Routledge. Borg, Jr., M. B., & Dalla, M. R. (2005). Treatment of Gangs/Gang Behavior in Adolescence. In T. Gullotta & G. Adams (Eds.) Handbook of Adolescent Behavior (pp. 519-542). New York: Kluwer/Plenum. Borg, Jr., M. B. & Garrod, E. (2003). Criminal Behavior, Adulthood. In M. Bloom & T. Gullotta (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion (pp. 366-372). New York: Kluwer/Plenum. Borg, Jr., M. B., Garrod, E., & Dalla, M. R. (2001). Intersecting ‘Real Worlds’: Community Psychology and Psychoanalysis. The Community Psychologist, 34(3): 16-19. Borg, Jr., M. B., Garrod, E., Dalla, M. R., & McCarroll, J. (2009). Can Psychoanalysis Exist Outside the Consulting Room? In B. Willock, R. Curtis, & L. Bohm (Eds.) Taboo or Not Taboo: Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis (pp. 193-207) Madison, CT: International Universities Press. Borg, Jr., M. B., & Lynch, M. (2005). A Collaborative and Consultative Approach Toward Understanding and Change in an Immigrant Catholic Parish: A Case Study. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 57, 142-152. Borg, Jr., M. B., & Magnetti, E. (2004). The Diva Is/In the Organization: Exploring Personal/Interpersonal/Organizational Dynamics and their Enactment. Psychodynamic Practice, 10, 221-247. Borg, M. B., Jr., & McCarroll (2004). At the Prison-Community Boundary: The Women’s Prison Association of New York City. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 32, 86-101.

Current projects include the development of a model and theory regarding a concept that we refer to as "Human Anti-Depressant". The CCG team has also signed a contract with Nova Science Publishers for the book,“Mining Psychoanalytic Stories From Community Crisis Intervention." 

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2002a). The Avalon Gardens Men’s Association: A Community Health Psychology Case Study. Journal of Health Psychology, 7 (3): 345-357.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2002b). The Psychoanalyst as Community Practitioner. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22 (2): 26-34.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003a). Atrocity Touring Psychoanalysis: A Case Study in Traumatic Enactment. Mind and Human Interaction, 13: 132-144.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003b). Community Group-Analysis: A Post-Crisis Synthesis. Group-Analysis, 36: 228-241.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003c). Observations from a World Trade Center Disaster Intervention. The Community Practitioner, 2 (1): 21-25.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2003d). Psychoanalytic Pure War: Interactions with the Post-Apocalyptic Unconscious. Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, 8 (1): 57-67.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2004a). Community Intervention as Clinical Case Study. Clinical Case Studies, 3, 250-270.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2004b). Venturing Beyond the Consulting Room: Psychoanalysis in Community Crisis Intervention. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 40 (2): 147-174.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2005a). Community Analysis: A Case Study Examining Transference and Countertransference in Community Intervention. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 14 (1), 5-15.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2005b). Superblind: Supervising a Blind Therapist With a Blind Analysand in a Community Mental Health Setting. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 22 (1): 32-48.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2005c). A Zombie Storms the Meathouse: Approximating Living and Undergoing Psychoanalysis in a Palliative Care Culture. Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, 10 (1): 1-22.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2006). Engaging Diversity’s Underbelly: A Story From an Immigrant Parish Community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 37 (3/4): 191-202.

Borg, Jr., M. B. (2007). Just Some Everyday Examples of Psychic Serial Killing: Psychoanalysis, Necessary Ruthlessness, and Disenfranchisement. In B. Willock, R. Curtis, & L. Bohm (Eds.) On Deaths and Endings: Psychoanalyst’s Reflections On Finality, Transformations and New Beginnings (pp. 180-195). London: Routledge.

Borg, Jr., M. B., & Dalla, M. R. (2005). Treatment of Gangs/Gang Behavior in Adolescence. In T. Gullotta & G. Adams (Eds.) Handbook of Adolescent Behavior (pp. 519-542). New York: Kluwer/Plenum.

Borg, Jr., M. B. & Garrod, E. (2003). Criminal Behavior, Adulthood. In M. Bloom & T. Gullotta (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion (pp. 366-372). New York: Kluwer/Plenum.

Borg, Jr., M. B., Garrod, E., & Dalla, M. R. (2001). Intersecting ‘Real Worlds’: Community Psychology and Psychoanalysis. The Community Psychologist, 34(3): 16-19.

Borg, Jr., M. B., Garrod, E., Dalla, M. R., & McCarroll, J. (2009). Can Psychoanalysis Exist Outside the Consulting Room? In B. Willock, R. Curtis, & L. Bohm (Eds.) Taboo or Not Taboo: Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis (pp. 193-207) London: Karnac.

Borg, Jr., M. B., & Lynch, M. (2005). A Collaborative and Consultative Approach Toward Understanding and Change in an Immigrant Catholic Parish: A Case Study. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 57, 142-152.

Borg, Jr., M. B., & Magnetti, E. (2004). The Diva Is/In the Organization: Exploring Personal/Interpersonal/Organizational Dynamics and their Enactment. Psychodynamic Practice, 10, 221-247.

Borg, M. B., Jr., & McCarroll (2004). At the Prison-Community Boundary: The Women’s Prison Association of New York City. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 32, 86-101.