The Psyche and the Social World: Developments in Group-Analytic Theory

By Dennis Brown and Louis Zinkin

This book contains a stimulating diversity of chapters that explore the development of Foulkesian ideas - it is] a fine exposition of group analysis.'

- Group Analysis

'This is essential contemporary reading.'

- British Journal of Psychiatry

In this examination of the legacy of Foulkes, the theoretical foundations of group psychotherapy are applied to a range of groups, including family therapy, institutional dynamics and educational therapy. Contributors to this volume include distinguished group analysts, such as Pines and De Mar, and more junior analysts selected for their original thinking. The complexity of creating a coherent theory of group analysis is underlined by the multiple authorship of a single volume compiled and edited along group principles. Editors Brown and Zinkin also had access to the preliminary notes of a proposed book on group theory, cut short by Foulkes's death, which cover topics as wide-ranging as psychoneurosis, social inheritance and the Oedipus complex.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853029289
• ISBN13: 9781853029288
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"