Relational group psychotherapy : from basic assumptions to passion / Richard M. Billow ; foreword by Malcolm Pines ; with an introduction by James S. Grotstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billow, Richard M., 1943-

Series:

International library of group analysis ; 26.

International library of group analysis ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group psychoanalysis.

Group psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from traditional approaches in group psychotherapy.

Contents:

Relational Group Psychotherapy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Preface: Plan of the Book; Chapter 1 The Authority of the Group Therapist's Psychology; Chapter 2 The Therapist's Anxiety and Resistance to Group; Chapter 3 The Basic Conflict: To Think or Anti-think - Applying Bion's Theory of Thinking in the Group Context; Chapter 4 Entitled Thinking, Dream Thinking, and Group Process; Chapter 5 Containing and Thinking - The Three Relational Levels of the Container-Contained; Chapter 6 Containing the Adolescent Group; Chapter 7 Bonding in Group - The Therapist's Contribution

Chapter 8 Rebellion in GroupChapter 9 Primal Affects - Loving, Hating, and Knowing; Chapter 10 Primal Receptivity - The Passionate Therapist: The Passionate Group; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-248) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781417501854

1417501855

9781283904193

1283904195

9781846423833

184642383X

OCLC:

567905551