1st Edition
On Group Analysis and Beyond Group Analysis as Meta-Theory, Clinical Social Practice, and Art
By Anastassios Koukis
Copyright 2016
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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By extending the views of Foulkes, Bion, Freud, and Klein, this book draws the outline of a group analytic theory and meta-theory by studying the paternal and maternal functions as expressed by the conductor and the group analytic group respectively and extrapolating them to the psychoanalytic aspects of Lacan and the structuralism of Levi-Strauss's anthropological views. From this perspective,... Read more
Series Editor's Foreword , Introduction , In Search of a Theory and Meta-Theory of Group Analysis , Principles of the group-analytic group: towards a meta-theory , Paternal function and group analysis as a reverse symmetry of conductor (father) and group (mother): the prospects after Foulkes and Bion , Group Analysis in Operation: Some Fundamental Aspects and Phenomena , Money: from the thing itself to its symbolic death and to recognition of the symbolic father. A group-analytic approach with a transcultural dimension , Envy in group analysis , Spaltpilz: a case of self-destructive projective identification and scapegoating in the early phase of a transcultural group-analytic group , Early ending in group analysis and borderline conditions , Ending in group analysis and neurosis: from pathological narcissism to social consciousness , Group-Analytic Psychotherapy as a Treatment of Major Disorders , Group analysis and eating disorders: a study of the therapeutic impact of group-analytic psychotherapy on women suffering from anorexia and bulimia nervosa , Depression in schizophernia and the therapeutic impact of the group-analytic group , Dreaming and psychosis: coping with hearing voices in group analysis , The ontology and phenomenology of dreaming in psychosis: a group-analytic approach with a neuropsychological perspective , Group Analysis and its Relationship with the Social Unconscious and Art , Desire and despair in postmodern times: aspects of the social unconscious in a declining world and the significance of group analysis for future prosperity , Group analysis and music: similarities and differences between conducting a group-analytic group and conducting an orchestra , Epilogue
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Anastassios Koukis
