The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame

ISBN-13: 9781782204152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 286 str.

Clive Hazell; Mark Kiel

Opis

In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations paradigms by pairing classical Group Relations concepts with typically non-Tavistock psychology paradigms and social sciences concepts. Under the broad domain of psychologically-informed constructs, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and bioenergetics are applied.

Under a somewhat broader range of social science conceptualization, the capacity for abstraction is linked with anti-work in groups, the large group is re-imagined as an extension of community dynamics and dysfunction, and the role of symbol systems, symbology, and semiotics are examined in relation to sophisticated work groups. Lastly, non-Tavistock models of group development and conceptualization are re-interpreted and explained using a group-as-a-whole framework.

Much work in this field has been based on one or two paradigms, notably stemming from the work of Rice (Learning for Leadership), Bion (Experiences in Groups), and Klein (Envy and Gratitude and Other Works). While these models and their extensions are indeed useful, the authors argue that it is time to introduce new paradigms to enrich the interpretive possibilities of this field and to increase its applicability to modern and postmodern contexts.

Spis treści

Preface , On learning groups , The Hill interaction matrix: a modification and elaboration , Gibb’s trust model: a modification and elaboration , Existentialism and the Tavistock learning group , Lacanian discourses and the learning group , I'll disappear: data and the absence of data in the learning group , Anti-work and the capacity for abstraction , Trauma, the group, and remembering with the body , The body and the group , The large group, community, and therapeutic potential , Fears and wishes on partnering and working as a team , Why Tavistock groups are well-suited to the learning task , Coda

O autorze

Clive Hazell