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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\...