encounter group
nounDefinition of encounter group
: a usually unstructured group that seeks to develop the capacity of the individual to express feelings and to form emotional ties by unrestrained confrontation of individuals
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The workshop involved participation in massages, therapy games, encounter groups, and meditations from 5:00 am until midnight. — Win Mccormack, The New Republic, "The Human Potential Movement Gone Awry," 12 Apr. 2018 Storr takes part in encounter groups in California, grills a Benedictine monk cloistered at Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland, and gets academic psychologists to chat frankly about their work. — Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times, "How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story," 21 June 2018 During the civil rights era, reporters in the South frequently encountered groups of people who threatened to harm them. — Tim Arango, New York Times, "For Local Newspapers, Angry Readers Are a Given. But Killings Send Shivers.," 29 June 2018 In the encounter groups that took place here (and still do, in a different form, an experience to which Storr subjects himself), people were provoked, often harshly, into screaming at imaginary parents and usually ended up berating each other. — Gal Beckerman, The New Republic, "Don’t Blame Phones for Narcissism," 7 May 2018 He was especially appalled by the amount of psychological and physical violence prevalent in Rajneesh encounter groups. — Win Mccormack, The New Republic, "Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination," 27 Mar. 2018 In a 1978 issue of the German magazine Stern, a woman named Eva Renzi recounted her experiences in a Rajneesh encounter group. — Win Mccormack, The New Republic, "Outside the Limits of the Human Imagination," 27 Mar. 2018 And those excursions must have led them to encounter groups of H. sapiens or our close evolutionary relatives. — Washington Post, "Stone tools from Kenya give early glimpse of human behavior," 15 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'encounter group.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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encounter group
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en·coun·ter group
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Medical Definition of encounter group
: a usually leaderless and unstructured group that seeks to develop the capacity of the individual to express feelings and to form emotional ties by unrestrained confrontation of individuals (as by physical contact, uninhibited verbalization, or nudity) — compare t-group