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

COVER -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Permisions -- About the Contributors -- Series foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Historical Foundations -- Chapter One Principles and practice of group therapy -- Chapter Two Introduction to group-analytic psychotherapy -- Chapter Three The group as matrix of the individual's mental life -- Chapter Four General introduction: the individual as a whole in a total situation -- Chapter Five Book review: The Civilising Process . Vol. 1--The History of Manners, by Norbert Elias -- Part II Group-Analytic Theory -- Chapter Six My philosophy in psychotherapy -- Chapter Seven Group-analysis: taking the non-problem seriously -- Chapter Eight Destructive phases in groups -- Part II Psycho-Analysis and Group-Analysis -- Chapter Nine Psycho-analysis and group analysis -- Chapter Ten Some reflections on Bion's basic assumptions from a group-analytic viewpoint -- Chapter Eleven The theory of Incohesion: Aggregation/ Massification as the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems -- Chapter Twelve " Holding" and "containing" in the group and society -- Part IV Group-Analysis and Society -- Chapter Thirteen Group analysis: the problem of context -- Chapter Fourteen The language of the group: monologue, dialogue and discourse in group analysis -- Chapter Fiften The psyche and the social world -- Part V Challenges to the Theory/Extensions -- Chapter Sixten The anti-group: destructive forces in the group and their therapeutic potential -- Chapter seventen Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart: psychotherapy as a moral endeavour -- Chapter Eighten Complexity and the group matrix -- Index.

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