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First published in English in 1982 and based on more than five years of experience with therapy groups in the author's own practice, this book aims to introduce the reader to psychoanalytic group therapy. Assuming little previous knowledge, it presents the subject in a progressive and illustrative way.
List of contents
Preface to the English Edition Preface to the German Edition 1. Indication for Treatment and the Contract 2. Understanding, Observing, Interpreting 3. Three Theoretical Models of Psychoanalytic Group Therapy 4. The First Session of Group 1 5. Hatred and Love Between the Sexes: Continuation of the Process in Group 1 6. Resistance and Defence in Psychoanalytic Group Therapy 7. Transference in Psychoanalytic Group Therapy, Exemplified by Group 2 8. The Struggle with Authority. Subsequent Course of the Group Process in Group 2 9. The Group Process: Each Individual Participates in Shared Events 10. Early Mother-Child Relationship in the Group: Split into Good and Bad 11.Self-Destruction of a Group or the Result of Constructive Separations? 12. Sexuality and the Oedipus Complex in the Group 13. Aggressiveness in the Group 14. The Conductor’s Function 15. The Relationship Between Individuals, the Psychoanalyst and the Group 16. The End Phase of the Group Process 17. After Group Therapy has Ended Notes Index
About the author
Katharina Reiss, Erroll F. Rhodes
