The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: Further Papers of Malcolm Pines [Hardcover]

The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Piness long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its applications.

John Schlapobersky, editor, is a well-established author who organised the collection in: History; Development of Method; Metapsychology/Neurology; Final Papers. The compilation distils the lifes work of a pioneer in many fields - psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, group analyst, editor and author. Piness writing encompasses psychoanalytic and group analytic theory, developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethology, social science, language theory and mythology. He seeks their integration in the crucible of group analysis.

The book will become an essential text in psychotherapy and therapeutic communities - of value to students and readers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, politics, social and neurological sciences, humanities and language theory.

Part 1: Introduction? 1. Group analysis and group-analytic psychotherapy? Part 2: History and Context? 2.?The historical matrix of group analysis: A perspective from the history of ideas (1990)? 3. The coherency of group analysis: Its emergence and surrounding, supporting network? 4. Forgotten pioneers: An unwritten history of the therapeutic community  Maxwell Jones Lecture (1998)??Part 3: Development of Method and Technique in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy??5. Aims of a wandering psychotherapist  Interpretation, dialogue, response: Changes in psychoanalytic theory and technique? 6. Dialogue and selfhood: Discovering connections? 7. The self as a group: The group as a self? 8. The contribution of mirroring and resonance to psychoanalytic and group-analytic dialogue? 9. Changing times, changing realities: A group-analytic perspective on the history of psychotherapy? 10. Resonance as a factor in the development of intlC+