1st Edition
Attention, Cooperation, Purpose An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention -... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE CHAPTER ONE Attention CHAPTER TWO Distraction CHAPTER THREE Truth CHAPTER FOUR Cooperation CHAPTER FIVE Purpose CHAPTER SIX Forms of interaction CHAPTER SEVEN Learning the work of attention REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Biography
Robert French
