Dialogues in and of the Group - Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group

List of contents

Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I -- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981 -- The other in the group and the other of the group: two basic dialogues -- “The subject supposed to know” (Le sujet suppose savoir) -- What happens in the venerable halls of language when there is no space for the word -- From need, through demand, to desire -- Revolution, evolution: change and desire -- Part II -- Revolution, evolution: change and desire -- On knowing too much -- Between being and meaning: between drive and desire -- Conclusion

About the author

Macario Giraldo came to the United States of America in 1961 with a Fulbright scholarship to study linguistics at Georgetown University. After his MS in Applied Linguistics, he went to the Catholic University of America for his Ph.D. in clinical psychology. He has been faculty at the Washington School of Psychiatry since 1974. He has written textbooks for the teaching of English in Columbia, as well as a number of papers and articles for academic books and journals.

Summary

This book presents a number of perspectives using central Lacanian concepts to invite the clinician into a different reading of the group therapy phenomena. It is intended to group therapists to take the challenge and begin to wrestle with Lacanian concepts as they look at the group.

Product details

• Authors: Giraldo, Macario Giraldo, Giraldo Macario
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367327699
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32769-9
• No. of pages: 126
• 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, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Group Psychotherapy