Group Dimension - Capitalism, Group Analysis, and the World Yet to Come

The Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.

List of contents

List of illustrations
Forewords
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The evolution of capitalism and the group dimension
PART I: Capitalism and the time of monsters
1. It was not always like this
2. Keynes and Keynesianism
PART II: Neoliberalism: Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society
3. Hayek as a response to Keynes
4. The strange fruits of neoliberalism
PART III: The story of how humans evolved is the story of the group dimension
5. Freedom before humans
6. Early humans
PART IV: The social brain
7. Jaak Panksepp and his unique contribution
8. The basic feelings: Seeking, Fear, Rage
9. The relational feelings: Lust and Care
10. Panic/Grief, Play, integration and social homeostasis
PART IV: Figurations and groups
11. Seeking is the foundational feeling of life
12. The role of groups in everyday life: Synthesis with Panksepp

About the author

Claire Bacha was born in Chicago in 1945 and studied anthropology and sociology, obtaining postgraduate degrees in Chile and Brazil. Her doctorate was on finance capitalism at Manchester University, UK. She trained as a psychoanalyst and was a senior Group Analyst in Manchester, working until shortly before she died in 2023.

Summary

The Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Bacha
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032395135
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239513-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Political Ideologies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Political ideologies and movements, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis