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The World within the Group - Developing Theory for Group Analysis (Paperback)
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The World within the Group - Developing Theory for Group Analysis (Paperback)
Series: The New International Library of Group Analysis
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"The World Within the Group" is an original and ambitious endeavor
to connect group analysis to philosophy, history, and modern social
theory. The book argues that group analysis needs theoretical
renewal to remain relevant, and that philosophy is a valuable
resource for such thinking. In particular, the work of three
philosophers is examined: Nietzsche, Dewey, and Gadamer, each being
associated with "pragmatic-perspective" inquiry. The author
demonstrates that group analysis is compatible with such inquiry,
and that we understand and intervene from within the horizon of
specific traditions of training and theory. Group analysis typifies
an unremitting relational stance, valuing openness of dialogue, and
moving in and out of the perspectival worlds of the participants.
The book also offers a re-formulation of the concept of social
unconscious, seen as a discursive world of production and
articulation. Drawing on contemporary social theories, it chimes
with the spirit of Elias s historical approach. Considering social
worlds markedly different, often incommensurable, with our own, the
author provides accounts of the shifting social unconsciousness
during the Reformation and revolutionary upheavals in England. The
social unconscious generates ideals and exclusions, both model and
abject figures, such as those of the witch, the model Christian,
degenerates and other "dangerous classes." Returning to clinical
concerns, the final two essays address the "narrative turn" in
social sciences. The implications of considering persons as
story-telling, metaphorical animals is explored, as is the
inevitability that personal stories are infused by wider, cultural
narratives. Society has changed considerably since Foulkes day and
the final chapter considers how group analysis can help contain as
well as illuminate some of the complex issues we face in the modern
world, and thus remain relevant."
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