1st Edition
Resonance and Reciprocity Selected Papers by Dennis Brown
Editor’s Introduction. Foreword: Professor Anthony W Bateman. Author’s Introduction and Autobiographical Notes. Part 1: Psychosomatics: Introductory Comments. Listening to Eczema - Deductions and Predictions. The Psychosoma and the Group. The Royal Road to the Mysterious Leap: The Psychosoma and the Analytic Process. Part 2: Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis. Drowsiness in the Countertransference. Assessment and Selection for Groups. Text, Context and Texture: Free Speech in the Service of Health and Healing. Dialogue for Change. Confrontation in the Group Analytic Matrix: Toward a Classification. Change in the Group-Analytic Setting. Self Development Through Subjective Interaction: A Fresh Look at "Ego Training in Action". Fair Shares and Mutual Concern: The Role of Sibling Relationships. Part 3: Transculturality and Metapsychology. Context, Content And Process: Inter-Relationships Between Small And Large Groups in a Transcultural Workshop. Views of Maastricht & Heidelberg: Some Questions Arising from Two Transcultural Workshops Seen by Observers with Different Roles. Use and Abuse of Cultural Differences Analysis and Ethics in Transcultural Workshop Settings. Group Analysis, Transculturality and Ethics. Foulkes’s Basic Law of Group Dynamics 50 Years on: Abnormality, Injustice and the Renewal of Ethics. Pairing Bion and Foulkes: Towards a Metapsychosociology? Bion and Foulkes: Basic Assumptions and Beyond.
Biography
Dennis Brown, psychiatrist, analyst and group analyst was a leading figure in the field of group analysis and for many years worked both in the NHS and at the Group-Analytic Practice. With vast experience in the treatment of psychosomatic as well as psychological / psychiatric conditions, he taught internationally and was read widely. He co-authored Introduction to Psychotherapy: an outline of psychodynamic principles and practice. He was a founder member of the Routledge International Library of Group Psychotherapy. He was an important contributor in the development of psychotherapy services in the Health Service.
Jason Maratos is a psychiatrist for children and adolescents and a group analyst based at The Group-Analytic Practice. In his work he integrates the discoveries of medicine, psychiatry (and the findings of developmental psychology), psychoanalysis and group analysis with philosophical trends from Aristotle to the post-modernists. He has published and lectured in the UK, Europe and South America.
"Throughout the book Dennis Brown’s personality and capacities show through. He is deeply devoted both to psychoanalysis and to group analysis, thinks and writes simply and clearly and has left us a rich legacy…It should be widely read, certainly by group analysts but hopefully by other members of our far flung group psychotherapy community."
– Malcomb Pines, Psychodynamic Practice
