On Group Analysis and Beyond: Group Analysis as Meta-Theory, Clinical Social Practice, and Art

289 Pages·2016·5.415 MB·English

by  Anastassios Koukis

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CHAPTERTITLE I
ON GROUP ANALYSIS
AND BEYOND
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NEW INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF GROUP ANALYSIS
Series Editor: Earl Hopper
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ON GROUP ANALYSIS
AND BEYOND
Group Analysis as Meta-theory,
Clinical Social Practice,
and Art
Anastassios Koukis
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First published in 2016 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT
Copyright © 2016 to Anastassios Koukis
The right of Anastassios Koukis to be identified as the author of this work
has been asserted in accordance with §§77 and 78 of the Copyright Design
and Patents Act 1988.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR x
SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD xi
INTRODUCTION xiv
PART I
IN SEARCH OF A THEORY AND
META-THEORY OF GROUP ANALYSIS
CHAPTER ONE
Principles of the group-analytic group: 3
towards a meta-theory
CHAPTER TWO
Paternal function and group analysis as a reverse 23
symmetry of conductor (father) and group
(mother): the prospects after Foulkes and Bion
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vi CONTENTS
PART II
GROUP ANALYSIS IN OPERATION:
SOME FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS AND PHENOMENA
CHAPTER THREE
Money: from the “thing” itself to its symbolic death 47
and to recognition of the symbolic father. A group-
analytic approach with a transcultural dimension
CHAPTER FOUR
Envy in group analysis 63
CHAPTER FIVE
Spaltpilz: a case of self-destructive projective 77
identification and scapegoating in the early phase
of a transcultural group-analytic group
CHAPTER SIX
Early ending in group analysis and borderline conditions 95
CHAPTER SEVEN
Ending in group analysis and neurosis: from 107
pathological narcissism to social consciousness
PART III
GROUP ANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
AS A TREATMENT OF MAJOR DISORDERS
CHAPTER EIGHT
Group analysis and eating disorders: a study of 121
the therapeutic impact of group-analytic psychotherapy
on women suffering from anorexia and bulimia nervosa
CHAPTER NINE
Depression in schizophrenia and the therapeutic impact 135
of the group-analytic group
CHAPTER TEN
Dreaming and psychosis: coping with hearing 149
voices in group analysis
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
The ontology and phenomenology of dreaming 163
in psychosis: a group-analytic approach with a
neuropsychological perspective
PART IV
GROUP ANALYSIS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUS AND ART
CHAPTER TWELVE
Desire and despair in postmodern times: aspects 177
of the social unconscious in a declining world and
the significance of group analysis for future prosperity
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Group analysis and music: similarities and 199
differences between conducting a group-analytic
group and conducting an orchestra
EPILOGUE 221
REFERENCES 227
INDEX 247
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book covers a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic and group
analytic issues with an inter-disciplinary perspective, and was written
successively over the past twenty years or so. Thus, it is obviously
indebted to a great many colleagues and people, in Greece and
abroad, and in other domains, from science and philosophy to music.
It would be hazardous to try and enumerate them all here, with a
high risk of inadvertently leaving someone out. A large number of
colleagues, among whom special mention should be made of Malcolm
Pines, the patriarch of group analysis after Foulkes, are properly cited
in the book as sources. They all know how much I appreciate their
contribution to the preparation of this book through our discussions
and communications or collaborations over the years and, above all,
I thank them wholeheartedly for their encouragement in my effort
to investigate further subtle and perplexed issues in group analytic
theory, meta-theory, and clinical practice that remained as yet un-
explored.
Special thanks are due to the Karnac editors—and in particular to
my colleague Earl Hopper—who not only read the manuscript and
supported its publication, but also expressed their continuous and
mindful concern for it during the editorial processes. I also express my
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
thanks to the editors of the journals referred to in this book for their
permission to allow chapters that were initially published as articles
in their journals to be reprinted here.
My warmest thanks to all the members of my group-analytic
groups, past and present. Nobody has taught me as much as they
have, or has given me the strength to continue at times when the
desire to deepen the understanding of the human soul seemed to be
dwindling rapidly under the burden of what appeared to be impene-
trable or inconceivable, an obstacle with which all psychological
researchers are known to struggle ceaselessly.