What Is A Group?: A New Look at Theory in Practice

by Chris Oakley

Overview

This volume on groups emphasises the importance of a psychoanalytic analysis, as opposed to a behaviourist account. Work by Foulkes and Bion is reconsidered in the light of current clinical practice by Robin Cooper and Michael Halton, and the American scene is represented through an essay by Otto Kernberg, using Freud's work on group psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781900877077
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1999
Series:	The Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Chris Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice. When not working he spends his time attending football matches all over the world.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Freud on Groups 3 Foulkes and Group Analysis 4 Bion, Foulkes and the Oedipal Situation 5 Mass Psychology Through the Analytic Lens 6 The Social Unconscious in Clinical Work 7 The Dilemmas of Ignorance 8 Group Subversion as Subjective Necessity Towards a Lacanian Orientation to Psychoanalysis in Group Settings 9 Levinas and the Question of the Group