The Group and the Unconscious

The Group and the Unconscious

by Didier Anzieu
The Group and the Unconscious

The Group and the Unconscious

by Didier Anzieu

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Overview

Originally published in 1984, this is the first published account in English of the development of group psychotherapy in France.

Under the leadership of Professor Didier Anzieu, psychoanalysts actively and ingeniously brought psychoanalytical insights to bear upon group process. These methods were widely applied in training groups for mental health professionals, as well as in many other organizations. Anzieu and his colleagues made many advances in understanding the psychology of large-group situations, and these advances contributed to the growing interest in the field.

The main aim of the book is to examine the unconscious life of the human group. Professor Anzieu describes the processes of fantasy and imagination that are common to social organizations, training groups and psychotherapeutic groups, and extends the psychoanalytical theory about dreams to the group. He gives an account of the various kinds of group fantasies, such as the group illusion, the group as a mouth, breaking apart fantasies, the group-machine, and the self-destructive group. The book is illustrated by ten clinical case studies, which are vividly described by Professor Anzieu. The interaction of the imaginary processes and the social ideas of the group are also studied, and the theoretical discussion in general reflects the interest of French psychoanalysts in the earliest structures of the mind and of the psychotic level of the personality as it becomes manifest in the group process.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138801134
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/22/2014
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Group Therapy
Pages: 298
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. On the Psycho-analytic Method and the Rules of its Application in Group Situations 2. The System of Rules in Diagnostic Groups: Structure, Internal Dynamics and Groundwork 3. Analytical Psychodrama and Physical Exercises 4. Psycho-analytic Work in Large Groups 5. Group Phantasies 6. The Analogy of Group and Dream: Wish-fulfilment in Groups 7. The Group Illusion 8. The Group is a Mouth: Oral Phantasies in the Group 9. The Fragmentation Phantasy: Anxieties Aroused by the Group Situation 10. The Phantasy of the Group as a Machine: Persecutive-Seductive Groups 11. Paradoxical Resistance 12. The Group and the Superego 13. Psycho-analytic Group Theory 14. Conclusions Bibliography Index

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