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An Introduction to Groupwork A Group-Analytic Perspective: Barnes

  Contents Foreword 1 Chapter 1 Introduction: Looking at groups 2 Chapter 2 The Individual and the group 3 Part 1 Drawing Ideas from psychoanalysis 3 Part 2  Applying group concepts to the individual 5 Chapter 3 Growing a group 5 Chapter 4 What happens in a group 6 Chapter 5 Working in the group, negotiating boundaries 7 Chapter 6 Working in the group 9 Chapter 7 Differences in Group: Heterogeneity and Homogeneity 11 Chapter 8 Working Together 12 Chapter 9 On becoming a group therapist 13 Foreword 3 phases of group The prejudicial start: this will fix me, conductor cold fish   etc Confusion and uncertainty: increase of problems with the heterogeneity of the group. Silence or incessant talking Then the fog clear and things make sense.   Bion pairing: hope for a saviour Bion dependency: unconsciously believe they need a saviour.   The framework is the where the emotional life of clients gets played out.   Complex\...
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Group Therapy Explained: Berwick

 Contents Foreword 1 Prologue 1 Chapter 1 The development of group analysis 2 Chapter 2 Core concepts What goes on in groups part 1 4 Chapter 3 Core concepts What goes on in group part 2 7 Chapter 4 What does the conductor do Part 1 10 Chapter 5 What does the conductor do Part 2 12 Chapter 6 Development in Group analysis The mother approach 15 Chapter 7 Development in group analysis 18 Chapter 8 Working within groups 19 Chapter 9 Beginnings 20 Chapter 10 A group in action 21 Chapter 11 A Group in action (making room) 22 Chapter 12 Endings 23 Foreword Group analytic therapy comes from diverse sources; its openness means that it   is a more experiential rich than theoretically definable approach. Individual\group focus=anti group. Foulkes pro group anti individual=the individual is an abstraction.   Prologue Context=with and weave\tissue A thread and its properties that are governed by where it is, within the larger whole Context of...
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