Operative Groups
Subtitle: The Latin- American Approach to Group Analysis (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF GROUP ANALYSIS)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781843100942
Subjects: Philosophy & theory of psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; General; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy - Group; Psychology; Group psychoanalysis; Latin America; Psychological aspects; Social groups; Social psychology
Description: Group therapy and other dynamic approaches to the co-ordination of groups may focus either on the individual psychodynamics or on the group-as-a-whole. In Britain, group analysis developed as a group-centred approach of both therapeutic and non-therapeutic groups, from the foundational work of S.H. Foulkes. But there has been another, independent, Latin-American school of group analysis, which originated in Argentina as a result of the work and teachings of the Swiss born Argentine psychoanalyst Enrique Pichon-Rivi+¿re. This volume is a thorough introduction to operative groups. It starts by g.