Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy - A Contemporary Introduction

In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.

List of contents

Part I: Overview 1. Making Sense of The Group Experience 2. How is Group Psychotherapy Psychoanalytic? 3. Genealogy Part II: Core Concepts 4. The Expanded Psychoanalytic Group Frame 5. Group Process 6. Vertical and Horizontal Vectors Part III: Doing Our Work 7. Impasses and Opportunities 8. The Group as a Psychoanalytic Object

About the author

Richard M. Billow is a clinical psychologist based in New York, USA. He was the director of the Postgraduate Group Program at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, New York and currently serves as Clinical Professor in Adelphi's Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (2003), Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3 Rs (2010), Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy (2015), and Richard M. Billow's Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process: Changing Our Minds (T. Slonim, Ed., 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Richard M. Billow, Billow Richard M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032703237
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3270323-7
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Group, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Psychotherapy: group, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis