From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups - Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations

This book offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations, ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology, including the developments in critical theory, to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Series Foreword by Earl Hopper
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Nineteenth-century crowd psychology
CHAPTER TWO
Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology
CHAPTER THREE
Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology
CHAPTER FOUR
Reflections on a society of individuals
CHAPTER FIVE
The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England
CHAPTER SIX
Group relations and Bion’s legacy
CHAPTER SEVEN
Towards new basic assumptions in groups
CHAPTER EIGHT
Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social unconscious
CHAPTER NINE
Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis
CHAPTER TEN
Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of social systems: Earl Hopper’s theory of the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
Epilogue
References
Index

About the author

Carla Penna, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and a group analyst in Brazil. She is a member of the Psychoanalytic Circle of Rio de Janeiro and the Group Analytic Society International.

Summary

This book offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations, ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology, including the developments in critical theory, to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups.

Product details

• Authors: Carla Penna
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2022
• EAN: 9780367024499
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02449-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: The New International Library of Group Analysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Sociology: work & labour, Groups & group theory, Urban communities, Sociology: work and labour, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Groups and group theory, Urban communities / city life