1st Edition

Foundations of Group Analysis for the Twenty-First Century Foundations

By Jason Maratos Copyright 2015
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more
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*

Biography

Jason Maratos