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Group Analytic Therapists at Work is an accessible introduction to the experience of being in group analytic psychotherapy from a wide range of perspectives.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction What do we call what we do?
Amélie Noack, David Vincent
Part 1 Groups and group therapy
Chapter 1 Why groups are important and what they do
Amélie Noack
Chapter 2 History and Development of Group Analysis
David Vincent
Chapter 3 The Group Analytic Network London
Sue Einhorn, Amélie Noack
Part 2 The political and the social
Chapter 4 The Political and the Personal
Diane Rogan-Sofer
Chapter 5 In the Realm of the Political
Eugene Clerkin
Chapter 6 The Strange Phenomenon of being a Group Analyst
Sue Einhorn
Part 3 Diversity and difference
Chapter 7 A Turkish Speaking Women’s Group and the Cultural Considerations in everyday Group Analysis
Seda Sengun
Chapter 8 Finding Words for It – The Birth of Group Analytic Training in Rwanda
Justin Phipps
Chapter 9 The Dynamics of the Social Unconscious at Work in the Therapy Group
Sylvia Hutchison
Chapter 10 Who helps whom? A Group Analytic Approach to Working with Mothers and Babies in an NHS Perinatal Mental Health Service
Sheila Ritchie
Part 4 Gender and norms
Chapter 11 The Matrix as Container and Crucible
Amelie Noack
Chapter 12 The Father in the Group
David Vincent
Chapter 13 The Patrix – A new Concept for Group Analysis
Amelie Noack
Chapter 14 Normative Authority
Sarah Tucker
Part 5 Isolation and the social sphere
Chapter 15 Internet and Group Analysis
Neil Telfer
Chapter 16 Psychic and Social Isolation
Sylvia Hutchinson
Chapter 17 Teaching and Learning in Small Groups: Maximising learning and minimising anxiety in an Experiential Group
Sandra Evans
Chapter 18 Belonging: Inclusion and Exclusion – Who has the Power
Sue Einhorn
References
Index
About the author
Amélie Noack is a training group analyst and a Jungian psychoanalyst. She worked in private practice, as well as teaching and supervising in the UK and abroad, was Convenor of the London Qualifying Course and Foundation Course and served on the EGATIN Committee. She now works at GRAS in Germany.
David Vincent is a group analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a Professional Doctorate from the University of Essex and worked for many years in the NHS as Consultant Adult Psychotherapist. He has been Chair of Council for the IGA and Chair of Ethics for the BPC.
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Group Analytic Therapists at Work is an accessible introduction to the experience of being in group analytic psychotherapy from a wide range of perspectives.
