Linking, Alliances, and Shared Space: Groups and the Psychoanalyst

by Rene Kaes

Overview

This book presents the general framework of the psychoanalytic approach to groups, describing the main elements of a psychoanalytic model of the group and of the subject within the group. It describes the various problems posed by extending the field of investigation and practices of psychoanalysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905888047
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/2007
Series:	The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The International Psychoanalysis Library — Preface — Foreword — Introduction — How the question of the group was posed in psychoanalysis — The epistemological problem of the group in psychoanalysis — The group as a psychoanalytic situation — Clinical psychoanalytic work in the group situation — The group as an intrapsychic formation: psychic groupality and internal groups — Forms and processes of group psychic reality: the group psychic apparatus — Associative processes in groups — Phoric functions: speech-bearer, symptom-bearer, dream-bearer — The common and shared dream space: dream polyphony — Unconscious alliances — The subject of the unconscious, the subject of linking — Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

"Group psychoanalysis (or group psychoanalytic psychotherapy) is a clinical practice that continues to be very active and plays an important role in the application of psychoanalysis, in the field of mental health and in the training of psychotherapists. René Kaës gives us a very complete overview of the history of this practice and of its recent advances. In this way, he allows us to benefit from his great competence in this area in which he has played a key role in France for more than forty years. From life-like clinical information he offers us a theoretical reflection, which also takes into account the tradition of which he has been one of the craftsmen."

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