Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion

by Peter Simpson and Robert French

This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782201319
• ISBN13: 9781782201311
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"