Title: Beyond the anti-group : survival and transformation /
Authors: Nitsun, Morris
Year: 2015
Subjects: Great Britain.; Social interaction Technological innovation.; Group psychotherapy.; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Group.
Abstract: ""Beyond the Anti-Group: survival and transformation" builds on the success of Morris Nitsun's influential concept of the Anti-group, taking it into new domains of thought and practice in the current century. "A historical and ideological breakthrough" (Tuttman 1991), the concept focuses on anxiety and hostility within, towards and between groups, as well as the destructive potential of groups. In Beyond the Anti-Group", Morris Nitsun continues his inquiry into the clinical implications of the anti-group but also explores the concept beyond the consulting room, in settings as wide-ranging as cultural and environmental stress in the 21st century, the fate of public health services and the themes of contemporary art. Readers of Beyond the Anti-Group: Survival and Transformation will be stimulated by the depth, breadth and creativity of the author's analysis and by the excursion into new fields of inquiry. This book offers new scope, new ideas and new impetus for psychotherapists, group analysts and group practitioners in general, students of group and organizational processes, and those working on the boundary between psychotherapy and the arts"--
Contents: The wider context. The question of survival in the twenty-first century : challenges to group analysis -- An anti-group perspectives of organizational change : the case of the National Health Service (NHS) -- The clinical setting. Group analytic psychotherapy on the edge -- Group analysis and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) -- The group as refuge : group psychotherapy in inner London -- Developmental perspectives. Being a group therapist : a journey through life -- Falling in love : a group analyytic perspective -- Group analysis and the arts. Group analysis and performance art -- Rebel without a cause : authority and revolt as themes in the cinema.