Foundations of Group Analysis for the Twenty-First Century: Foundations

ISBN-13: 9780367102616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str.

Jason Maratos

Opis

The Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) celebrates forty years from its foundation with the publication of two new volumes tracing the foundations and applications of Group Analysis. The first volume ('Foundations') aims to publicise the foundations of group analysis (with the earliest papers of Foulkes) as well as the most influential theoretical contributions by pillars of modern group analysis, such as Pines, Brown, and Hopper. The reader will be able to see the development of Group Analysis, form an opinion about the trajectory that it follows, and judge which way the tradition of openness and creative integration of diverse theoretical contributions will lead in the twenty-first century. The second volume ('Applications') focuses on the numerous fields of work that use group analytic principles. Workers in the field of forensic psychotherapy would now consider it a great omission if they did not use some form of group analytic intervention, as would professionals dealing with those who manifest personality disorders, or those who work with different age groups, such as adolescents.

Spis treści

Permissions , Series Foreword , Introduction , Historical Foundations , Principles and practice of group therapy , Introduction to group-analytic psychotherapy , The group as matrix of the individual’s mental life , General introduction: the individual as a whole in a total situation , Book review: The Civilising Process. Vol. 1––The History of Manners, by Norbert Elias , Group-Analytic Theory , My philosophy in psychotherapy , Group-analysis: taking the non-problem seriously , Destructive phases in groups , Psycho-Analysis and Group-Analysis , Psycho-analysis and group analysis , Some reflections on Bion’s basic assumptions from a group-analytic viewpoint , The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems , “Holding” and “containing” in the group and society , Group-Analysis and Society , Group analysis: the problem of context , The language of the group: monologue, dialogue and discourse in group analysis , The psyche and the social world , Challenges to the Theory/Extensions , The anti-group: destructive forces in the group and their therapeutic potential , Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart: psychotherapy as a moral endeavour , Complexity and the group matrix*

O autorze

Jason Maratos