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Autobiography of a theory : developing the theory of living human systems and its systems-centered practice / Yvonne M. Agazarian and Susan P. Gantt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agazarian, Yvonne M., 1929-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group psychoanalysis--Philosophy.
- Group psychoanalysis.
- Group psychotherapy--Philosophy.
- Group psychotherapy.
- Social systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Systems-centred practice and its theory are one of the most important developments in group psychology in the last forty years. 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.
- Contents:
- COVER
- Autobiography of a Theory
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:Curiosity and Early Musings
- 1 Trying to Make it Make Sense:Change as a Function of Discrimination and Integration
- 2 The First Try at Theory
- 3 Second Theory:Theory of the Invisible Group Bridge Construct of Role between the Individual and the Group
- 4 Theory of the Group-As-A-Whole
- 5 Thinking Systems
- 6 Systems-Centered Practice
- 7 A Theory of Living Human Systems and its Systems-Centered Practice
- References
- Subject Index
- Name Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786610428922
- 9781280428920
- 1280428929
- 9781846421655
- 1846421659
- 9781417553563
- 1417553561
- OCLC:
- 567905718
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