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Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with anthropological, psychosocial, cultural and clinical research, this book offers an exciting outlook on attachment and group analysis.
List of contents
Foreword (Earl Hoper) Introduction (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete) 1. Developmental group analysis comes of age (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete) 2. Early psychosocial development: Can children benefit from group-analytic therapy? (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete) 3. The power and therapeutic potential of the adolescent peer group (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete) 4. Young adults' group lives: An increasingly long-winded road to adulthood? (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete) 5. Adult life in its prime: Integrating differences and complex group configurations (Arturo Ezquerro) 6. Late-middle age: Searching for a new group identity? (Arturo Ezquerro) Chapter 7. Group analysis with older adults: Can creativity survive when time is running out? (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete) Epilogue (Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete)
Index
About the author
Dr Arturo Ezquerro is a London-based consultant psychiatrist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and group analyst, and a senior assessor and trainer at the Institute of Group Analysis. He is an honorary member of the International Attachment Network and the World Association of International Studies and is the former Head of NHS Medical Psychotherapy Services for Brent. Ezquerro has over a hundred publications in five languages, including Encounters with John Bowlby (Routledge).
Dr María Cañete is a consultant psychotherapist and group analyst. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic and is a senior trainer at the Institute of Group Analysis. She is a former director of NHS group psychotherapy programmes for University College, St Charles and Mile End Hospitals, London. Cañete has published widely in English, German and Spanish.
Summary
Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with anthropological, psychosocial, cultural and clinical research, this book offers an exciting outlook on attachment and group analysis.
