"The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Pines's long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its applications. John Schlapobersky, editor, is a well-established author whoorganised the collection in: History; Development of Method; Metapsychology/Neurology; Final Papers. The compilation distils the life's work of a pioneer in many fields - psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, group analyst, editor and author. Pines's writing encompasses psychoanalytic and group analytic theory, developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethology, social science, language theory and mythology. He seeks their integration in the crucible of group analysis. The book will become an essential text in psychotherapy and therapeutic communities - of value to students and readers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, politics, social and neurological sciences, humanities and language theory"--
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Piness long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its applications.
John Schlapobersky, editor, is a well-established author who organised the collection in: History; Development of Method; Metapsychology/Neurology; Final Papers. The compilation distils the lifes work of a pioneer in many fields - psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, group analyst, editor and author. Piness writing encompasses psychoanalytic and group analytic theory, developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethology, social science, language theory and mythology. He seeks their integration in the crucible of group analysis.
The book will become an essential text in psychotherapy and therapeutic communities - of value to students and readers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, politics, social and neurological sciences, humanities and language theory.
The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Piness long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its applications.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Group analysis and group-analytic psychotherapy
Part 2: History and Context
2. The historical matrix of group analysis: A
perspective from the history of ideas (1990)
3. The coherency of group
analysis: Its emergence and surrounding, supporting network
4. Forgotten
pioneers: An unwritten history of the therapeutic community Maxwell Jones
Lecture (1998) Part 3: Development of Method and Technique in Group-Analytic
Psychotherapy
5. Aims of a wandering psychotherapist Interpretation,
dialogue, response: Changes in psychoanalytic theory and technique
6.
Dialogue and selfhood: Discovering connections
7. The self as a group: The
group as a self
8. The contribution of mirroring and resonance to
psychoanalytic and group-analytic dialogue
9. Changing times, changing
realities: A group-analytic perspective on the history of psychotherapy
10.
Resonance as a factor in the development of intimacy
11. Listening and the
sonorous self
12. More about listening Part 4: Metapsychology, Philosophy,
Mind/Body
13. The in-between
14. Problems with Freuds constitutional
aggression and the virtues of group analysis
15. From social mind to social
brain
16. Building on Bion, Following on Foulkes Part 5: Final Papers
17.
Training in group analysis: Where we have come from
18. Group analysis and
the affective disorders
19. Myths and mirroring
20. Narcissus and Echo:
Vision and hearing in early development. Applications to individual and group
psychotherapy Part 6: End Matter
Malcolm Pines trained in medicine at University College London and in psychoanalysis at the British Psychoanalytic Society. Founder member, Group Analytic Practice and Institute of Group Analysis; past president, Group Analytic Society, International Association of Group Psychotherapy and the Psychiatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine; consultant psychotherapist, St. Georges and Maudsley Hospitals and Tavistock Clinic; editor, Group Analysis and founder, International Library of Group Analysis.
John R. Schlapobersky graduated at University of Sussex, Institute of Education and London School of Economics. He qualified at the Institute of Group Analysis, where he serves as faculty. He was scientific secretary, Group Analytic Society; member, British Society for Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, American Group Psychotherapy Association; and founding trustee, Freedom from Torture. He practices at the Bloomsbury Psychotherapy Practice. Publications include From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice.
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