World Within the Group - Developing Theory for Group Analysis

List of contents

New International Library of Group Analysis Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Working intersubjectively: theory and therapy , Personal horizons, unformulated experience, and group analysis , Perspectivism, pragmatism, group analysis , The articulated space of social unconsciousness , Reforming subjectivity: personal, familial, and group implications of English reformation , An exclusionary matrix: degenerates, addicts, homosexuals , A modern monster? The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , “And thereby hangs a tale”: narrative dimensions of human life , Group analysis in contemporary society , Postscript , Glossary

About the author

Martin Weegman is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Group Analyst, with thirty years NHS experience. He is a well-known trainer, delivering workshops and lectures throughout the UK to a variety of psychology and psychotherapy organisations. Martin has written or co-edited four books, and published many book chapters and papers in a range of journals.

Summary

The World within the Group is an original and ambitious endeavour to connect group analysis to philosophy, history, and modern social theory. The book argues that group analysis needs theoretical renewal to remain relevant, and that philosophy is a valuable resource for such thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Weegmann, Weegmann Martin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367101961
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10196-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The New International Library of Group Analysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Group Psychotherapy