Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003 - 256 páginas

Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from traditional approaches in group psychotherapy. Instead, he places emphasis on the effect of the therapist's own evolving psychology on what occurs and what does not occur in group psychotherapy.

Building on Bion's early theory of group and his later formulations regarding the structure of thought and the role of affect, this work expands on the present understanding of relational theory and technique. Through the use of clinical anecdotes the author is able to ground theory in the realities of clinical experience making this essential reading for group psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, academics and students of psychoanalytic theory.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
9
FOREWORD
11
INTRODUCTION
13
PLAN OF THE BOOK
29
The Authority of the Group Therapists Psychology
33
The Therapists Anxiety and Resistance to Group
45
To Think or Antithink Applying Bions Theory of Thinking in the Group Context
69
Entitled Thinking Dream Thinking and Group Process
89
Containing the Adolescent Group
131
Bonding in Group The Therapists Contribution
152
Rebellion in Group
172
Primal Affects Loving Hating and Knowing
193
The Passionate Group
215
BIBLIOGRAPHY
238
SUBJECT INDEX
249
AUTHOR INDEX
255

Containing and Thinking The Three Relational Levels of the ContainerContained
110

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Richard M. Billow, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and an active contributor to the psychoanalytic and group literature. He has been associated with the Gordon Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, New York, since 1968, where he achieved doctorate and postdoctoral certificates in psychoanalysis and individual and group psychotherapy. He is Clinical Professor and Director of the Institute's Postdoctoral Program in Group Psychotherapy as well as running his own private practice in Great Neck, New York.

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