Autobiography of a Theory
Subtitle: Developing the Theory of Living Human Systems and Its Systems-Centered Practice (International Library of Group Analysis, 11)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781853028472
Subjects: Biography: general; Social systems; Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Reference; Medical; Psychotherapy - General; General; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Group Psychotherapy; Group psychoanalysis; Philosophy
First sentence: Having studied with a small psychoanalytic group in England, I joined the second year in the Psychoanalytic Studies Institute soon after moving to Philadelphia and became immersed in Ferenzi,Jones and, of course, Freud (the Brill translation-Strachey had not yet finished his!).
Description: "In this book Yvonne Agazarian traces the evolution of her ideas and their application to create a meta-theory, the theory of living human systems. Autobiography of a Theory follows Agazarian as she thinks her way through different stages, creating a theoretical background for SAVI (System for Analyzing Verbal Interaction), which she developed with Anita Simon, developing a theory of the Invisible Group for the book she wrote with Richard Peters and expanding on existing group dynamics theories."--BOOK JACKET.