Group Psychotherapy: The Psychoanalytic Approach

282 Pages·1965·10.583 MB·English

by  S. H. Foulkes, E. J. Anthony

GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY
The Psychoanalytic Approach
Other titles by S. H. Foulkes
Introduction to Group Analytic Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Group Analysis
Group Analytic Psychotherapy: Methods and Principles
Selected Papers: Psychoanalysis and Group Ana!ysis
Of related interest
David Rosenfeld: Psychoanalysis and Groups-History and
Dialectics
GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY
THE PSYCHOANALTYIC APPROACH
Second Edition
S.H. Foulkes & E.J. Anthony
K A R N A C
LONDON NEW YORK
First published in 1957
Second Edition 1965
Reprinted 1967, 1968, 1971
Reprinted with revisions 1973
Reprinted in 1984 with permission of Elizabeth Foulkes and E.J. Anthony by
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Second printing 1990
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Contents
Editorial Foreword 11
1. Group Psychotherapy and Group-Analysis :
Basic: Considerations (S.H.F.)
1. Introduetwn 15
2. The Psychoanalytic Approach 16
3. The Main 'IZendr 17
4. The Group-Analytic View 21
5. Basic Concepts of Group Psychotherapy 23
6. Group and Individual in New Perspective 25
2. Significant Features of the Group-Analytic
Group in Relation to Other Types of Human
Groups (S.H.F.)
1. Groups in General 3 1
2. Occupation and lkrapeutic Activity 33
3. Group Psychotherapy and Analytic Group Psycho-
tkrapy 37
4. Psychoanalytic and Group-Analytic Process 38
3. Patients and their Background, and the Oroup
Analytic Process (S.H.F.)
1. Patients and lkir Comphints 43
2. Neurosis and &uilibrium 45
3. Psychological Symptoms and Il)anshtion 47
4. Psychological and Physicbl Illness 49
5. The Bask of Psychoa~lysisa nd Group-Analysis 50
6. The Human Environment 53
7. The Construction of the Group Situation 55
4. Some Technical and Practical Aspects of the
Group-Analytic Situation (E.J.A.)
1. merapy and Research 61
2. Material Arrangements 62
3. Psychological Aspects 70
5. Clinical Illustrations with Commentary
(S.H.F.)
77
6. The Natural History of the Therapeutic Group
(E.J.A.)
1. Some Objervarlons on Human Conflct 118
2. Some Hypothetical Stages 12 4
3. A Literary Example of a Closed Group 133
4. Arrival and Departure of Members (Open
Group) 137
5. Individual v. Group Dynamics 141
6. The Psychol~gyo f the Leader v. The Psychology
of the Led 144
7. The Phenomenology of the Group Situation
(E.J.A.) 147
1. Some Group Specific Factors 14 9
2. Some Group Phenomena 152
3. Individual Psychoparlrology and the Group Trans-
action 162
8. Group-Analytic Psychotherapy with Children
and Adolescents (E.J.A.)
1. Geneml Principles 186
2. The 'Small Table' Technique with Kindergarten
Children 191
3. The 'Small Room' Technique with Latency
Children 196
4. Illustration from the Twenty-First Session of
a Boys' Group 21 5
5, The 'Small Circle' Technique with Adolescent
Groups 219
6. Group Therapeutic Techniquesf or Residential
Units 223
7. Illustration of an Interlocking Group
Organization 227
8. The Group Treatment of Psychotic Children 230
9. The Group as a Diagnostic Instrument 232
9. Group-Analytic Psychodynamics (S.H.F.)
1. Group and Individual 233
2. The Cen~ralS ignificance of Interpersonal Rela-
tionship 235
3. Corlfiguratiotl and Location of Disturbances 237
4. Communication and the Therapeutic Process 243
5. Spheres of Relationships 247
10. Wider Theoretical Formulations and
Applications (S.H.F.)
1. Group and Communication 251
2. Tlie Tr(~persona1N etwork or Matrix 258
3. Model of DifferentL evels of Communication 260
4. Some Eqrtivalents of Psychoanalytic Procmses 263
5. Different Therapeutic Group Situations 266
Selected Reading
In&%

We are grateful to Messrs Hamish Hamilton Ltd, the
author, and the translator, for permission to use a
short scene from Jean-Paul Sartre's In Camera.