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Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this
volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective
process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and
other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience
in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from
traditional approaches in group psychotherapy. Instead, he places
emphasis on the effect of the therapist's own evolving psychology
on what occurs and what does not occur in group psychotherapy.
Building on Bion's early theory of group and his later formulations
regarding the structure of thought and the role of affect, this
work expands on the present understanding of relational theory and
technique. Through the use of clinical anecdotes the author is able
to ground theory in the realities of clinical experience making
this essential reading for group psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other mental health
professionals, academics and students of psychoanalytic theory.
Couple psychotherapy extends the work of the psychotherapist to the
patient's most significant committed adult relationship, yet the
therapy is difficult both conceptually and technically. One major
reason for this difficulty is that in every couple's treatment
there is a confusing array of psychological defenses as well as
regressive and nonregressive couple object relations-as distinct
from the object relations that each individual member brings to the
couple. Further, many of these processes are occurring outside
consciousness and at the very same time. This book is an attempt to
clarify all the confusing issues by presenting a three-factor model
of couple psychotherapy within a psychodynamic framework. This
model has been found to be very effective with many different kinds
of couples. The book suggests that there are three powerful couple
dynamics that shape every couple's treatment: (A) the quality and
quantity of the couple's projective identifications; (B) the level
of their "couple object relations"; and (C) the presence or absence
of the defense of omnipotent control. These three variables are the
most important factors in the therapy; they determine the success
or failure of every therapy with every couple. These dynamics also
determine quite a bit about how to conduct a couple therapy with
regard to the therapist's level of activity, tone, the way of
sorting the material in his or her head, and even the kinds of
interventions he/she chooses (whether or not, for example, the
therapist will use certain resistance techniques). Understanding
these three variables and how they interact is key to the success
of the therapy.
This book addresses the major problems of leadership in groups,
organizations, and societies in the twenty-first century, when
rapid change, complex dilemmas, and earth-shattering consequences
affect the daily lives of people in the diverse contexts of social
institutions, the corporate world, domestic politics, and
international terrorism and conflict. The volume convenes a group
of distinguished scholars, consultants, and leaders who address
significant contemporary dilemmas that test the skills and
knowledge of all concerned individuals. Benjamin Disraeli said, "I
am their leader; therefore I must follow them." This book speaks
directly to that intimate connection between leaders and followers.
The organizing principle of the book is a 'group systems'
understanding of leadership further elaborated through the
relational and intersubjective concepts emerging in the fields of
counseling, dynamic psychiatry, and psychotherapy. This
interdisciplinary approach both complements and contrasts with the
traditional understanding of leadership based on the dynamics of
individual and collective self-interest.
This book addresses the major problems of leadership in groups,
organizations, and societies in the twenty-first century, when
rapid change, complex dilemmas, and earth-shattering consequences
affect the daily lives of people in the diverse contexts of social
institutions, the corporate world, domestic politics, and
international terrorism and conflict. The volume convenes a group
of distinguished scholars, consultants, and leaders who address
significant contemporary dilemmas that test the skills and
knowledge of all concerned individuals. Benjamin Disraeli said, "I
am their leader; therefore I must follow them." This book speaks
directly to that intimate connection between leaders and followers.
The organizing principle of the book is a "group systems"
understanding of leadership further elaborated through the
relational and intersubjective concepts emerging in the fields of
counseling, dynamic psychiatry, and psychotherapy. This
interdisciplinary approach both complements and contrasts with the
traditional understanding of leadership based on the dynamics of
individual and collective self-interest.
Earl Hopper, in his important, profound and well reasoned book
introduces a fourth Basic Assumption (Incohesion) to the three
Basic assumptions (of Flight/ Fight, Pairing and Dependency)
introduced by Bion. Hopper's theory of Incohesion provides us with
a new way of thinking about annihilation anxiety, which he
discusses in terms of the unconscious fears of annihilation
connected to the fears of separation.' - System Centered News 'What
we may learn most from reading Hopper's profound thinking presented
in this surprisingly readable book is how he makes the bridge from
his theory to the treatment of difficult patients. He identifies
aggregation and Massification as a characteristic of regressed
groups. In groups of the traumatized, however, where survivor
guilt, and perhaps more important, survivor shame underlies the
suffering, Aggregation and Massification are likely to be chronic.'
- Yvonne Agazarian Working within the traditions of Bion, Turquet,
Foulkes and Pines, and drawing on concepts and data from
psychoanalysis, group analysis and sociology, this volume develops
Earl Hopper's theory of the fourth basic assumption in the
unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems within a
social, cultural and political transgenerational context. He argues
that Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M (an
acronym for 'I AM' - an assertion of personal identity when
identity is under threat) is based on the fear of annihilation
stemming from traumatic experience. With full respect for the
constraints of the social unconscious, the personification of
aggregation and massification by patients with crustacean,
contact-shunning and amoeboid, merger-hungry characteristics,
respectively, is illustrated with detailed clinical vignettes
involving drug addicts, victims of incest and sexual abuse, and
child survivors of the Shoah. Concluding with critical commentaries
by senior British and American group analysts and psychoanalysts,
this volume is essential reading for both analysts and their
students.
Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this
volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective
process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and
other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience
in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from
traditional approaches in group psychotherapy. Instead, he places
emphasis on the effect of the therapist's own evolving psychology
on what occurs and what does not occur in group psychotherapy.
Building on Bion's early theory of group and his later formulations
regarding the structure of thought and the role of affect, this
work expands on the present understanding of relational theory and
technique. Through the use of clinical anecdotes the author is able
to ground theory in the realities of clinical experience making
this essential reading for group psychoanalysts and
psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other mental health
professionals, academics and students of psychoanalytic theory.
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