Beyond the Anti-Group: Survival and transformation [Paperback]

Cape, Foreword. Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: The Wider Context. The Question of Survival in the 21^st Century: Challenges to Group Analysis. An Anti-Group Perspective of Organizational Change: The Case of the NHS. Part II: The Clinical Setting. Group Psychotherapy on The Edge. Group Analysis and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. The Group as Refuge: Group Psychotherapy in Inner London. Part III: Developmental Perspectives. Being a Group Therapist. Falling in Love: A Group Analytic Perspective. Part IV: Group Analysis and the Arts. Group Analysis and Performance Art. Rebel Without a Cause: Authority and Revolt as Themes in the Cinema. Summary and Conclusions. Postscript.

Beyond the Anti-Group builds on the success of Nitsuns concept the anti-group, expanding into new domains of thought and practice today.

Morris Nitsun has created a rich tapestry in which group psychotherapy, organisational process and the arts come together in unexpected ways, rather like the interweaving process of a creative and well-functioning analytic group. It is likely to be of greatest appeal to readers who practise in some way as group therapists or facilitators. - Christopher Davies is a group analyst and NHS adult psychotherapist,  published in Therapy Today

Morris Nitsuns third major publication, Beyond the Anti-group: Survival and Transformation is a courageous book: relentless in its determination to address all facets of human nature, its capacity for denial and destructiveness as well as its ability to generate repair. His treatment of a key topic  the survival of the psychotherapy group - is far-reaching: creative, respectful, probing, poignantly personal, clinically sound, realislC-