· 2018· Book chapter
Therapeutic Group Analysis
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Short summary
S.H. Foulkes introduces a novel psychoanalytic method for group psychotherapy, focusing on the 'mental matrix' of the group as a whole.
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Key points
- Presents a novel psychoanalytic method for group psychotherapy based on 25 years of patient study.
- Focuses on the 'mental matrix' of the group as a whole, where individual and group dynamics interact.
- Offers new techniques and insights for psychoanalytic practice and theory.
- Aims to contribute to social, transpersonal psychopathology and transcultural anthropology.
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Abstract
'This book is based on twenty-five years of intensive study of patients in psychotherapeutic groups. The attitude is psychoanalytic but the method and technique are new. The background of consideration is the mental matrix of the group as a whole inside which all intrapsychic processes interact. This has a profound significance for psychoanalytical concepts and the many problems connected with them in psychoanalytic practice and theory.'As in the individual field, in psychoanalysis, so in this multipersonal, supraindividual, field, the study of the pathological proved most fruitful, opening the doors to dynamic unconscious forces which are otherwise closed and barred. It is not accidental therefore that observation and discovery in the therapeutic group are of special significance. Group-Analysis as here conceived, should prove a contribution to a truly social, traspersonal psychopathology and transcultural anthropology'.- S.H. Foulkes, from the Preface
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