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Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of groups : the fourth basic assumption / Earl Hopper; forward by Malcolm Pines.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopper, Earl.
- Series:
- International library of group analysis ; 23.
- International library of group analysis ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group psychoanalysis.
- Group psychotherapy.
- Psychic trauma.
- Social groups.
- Subconsciousness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working within the traditions of Bion, Turquet, Foulkes and Pines, and drawing on concepts and data from psychoanalysis, group analysis and sociology, this volume develops Earl Hopper's new theory of the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems. Located within a social, cultural and political transgenerational context, Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M (an acronym for 'I AM' - an assertion of personal identity when identity is under threat) is based on the fear of annihilation stemming from traumatic experience. With full respect
- Contents:
- List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Theory of Cohesion Proposed by Bion and Turquet, and Modified by Others; 2 The Fear of Annihilation and Traumatic Experience; 3 The Fourth Basic Assumption; 4 The Personification of Incohesion; 5 The Treatment of Difficult Patients in Clinical Group Analysis; 6 The Personification of Massification by Pandora; 7 An Illustration of Incohesion; 8 Summary, Invited Critical Commentaries, Discussion and Suggestions for Further Research and Applications
- Appendix I Some Conceptual Distinctions about Social Formations from Sociology and Social PsychologyAppendix II Encapsulation as a Defence against the Fear of Annihilation; References; Subject Index; Author Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283904650
- 1283904659
- 9781846426391
- 1846426391
- OCLC:
- 191039102
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