1st Edition

Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy A Contemporary Introduction

By Richard M. Billow Copyright 2025
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.    Billow integrates contemporary psychoanalytic thinking with Freudian and Kleinian core concepts, as well as Bion’s early group theory and his later metapsychology, to provide a holistic overview of group therapy and its potential benefits... Read more

Part I:  Overview  1. Making Sense of The Group Experience  2. How is Group Psychotherapy Psychoanalytic?  3. Genealogy  Part II: Core Concepts  4. The Expanded Psychoanalytic Group Frame  5. Group Process  6. Vertical and Horizontal Vectors  Part III: Doing Our Work  7. Impasses and Opportunities  8. The Group as a Psychoanalytic Object

Biography

Richard M. Billow is a clinical psychologist based in New York, USA. He was the director of the Postgraduate Group Program at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, New York and currently serves as Clinical Professor in Adelphi’s Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (2003), Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3 Rs (2010), Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy (2015), and Richard M. Billow's Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process: Changing Our Minds (T. Slonim, Ed., 2021).