Concept
Work group
In Bion's account of groups, the side of a group's functioning that cooperates on its real, declared task. It keeps in touch with reality, tolerates frustration and learns from experience, and it works alongside the basic assumptions, which keep breaking in on it.
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- Wilfred Bion
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- Basic assumption
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opposes
- Basic assumption The two are opposed modes of one group's mental life: work-group activity is obstructed and diverted by basic-assumption activity.