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:	9780367325343
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
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 IPA Publications Committee vii

About The Author ix

Preface xi

Foreword Lewis A. Kirshner xiii

Introduction 1

1 How the question of the group was posed in psychoanalysis 17

2 The epistemological problem of the group in psychoanalysis 37

3 The group as a psychoanalytic situation 53

4 Clinical psychoanalytic work in the group situation 69

5 The group as an intrapsychic formation: psychic groupality and internal groups 93

6 Forms and processes of group psychic reality: the group psychic apparatus 109

7 Associative processes in groups 135

8 Phoric functions: speech-bearer, symptom-bearer, dream-bearer 157

9 The common and shared dream space: dream polyphony 179

10 Unconscious alliances 205

11 The subject of the unconscious, the subject of linking 231

Epilogue 245

References And Bibliography 249

Index 257

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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