1st Edition

Developing Nuclear Ideas Relational Group Psychotherapy

By Richard M. Billow Copyright 2015
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Building and expanding on concepts presented in his previous volumes (Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, and Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3Rs), Richard M. Billow presents a coherent and innovative model of group psychotherapy. Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy offers, in experiential terms and with vivid examples, a... Read more
New International Library of Group Analysis Foreword , Introduction: relational group psychotherapy and the nuclear idea , The Nuclear Idea: Concept and Technique , Developing nuclear ideas , The four dimensions of a nuclear idea (experiential, affective, symbolic, and metapsychological): on scrutiny , Grounding the nuclear idea: sense and clinical sensibility , Processing nuclear ideas via four communicative modes: on hostage taking , When the group refuses a nuclear idea: on Facebook , The Influence of Polemic Ideas , Bipolar thinking leads to polemic ideas , Inveiglement , Its all about “me” , The therapist’s psychology as nuclear idea , The group beholds its leader , The invited presenter: outrage and outrageousness , The group therapist is “that guy”: organising speech

Biography

Richard M Billow