Like our parents: the role of identification in the construction of role models

This book will enrich the knowledge of those interested in groups and psychoanalysis, as well as introduce those who are preparing to study bonding configurations - groups, families and institutions - through the psychoanalytic lens. As a whole, this work has a focus, which can well be synthesised in the verses quoted by the author: "my pain is to realise that although we have done everything we have done, we are still the same and live like our parents" (Belchior, 1976). WALDEMAR JOSÉ FERNANDES.