The Visible and Invisible Group

by Yvonne M. Agazarian

Overview

Synthesizing psychoanalytic and group dynamic approaches to group life, this text offers practical guidelines. It advocates the simultaneous use of: the psychoanalytic perspective for observing the "visible" group of people and their interactions, and a General Systems "Field Theory" perspective for observing the "invisible" group-as-a-whole.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329099
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	Maresfield Library
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction — Two sets of laws — Group theory Yvonne Agazarian with Richard Peters — The visible and invisible group — The theory of the invisible group — The constructs of group dynamics as they apply to the visible and invisible group — The phases of group development — Three levels of group process — Group practice Richard Peters with Yvonne Agazarian — Interviewing and preparing a patient for group psychotherapy — Specific problems — Transference and counter-transference — The co-therapy issue — Phases of group development — The force field