Charles Ashback and Victor L. Schermer ; foreword by James S. Grotstein.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
The international library of group psychotherapy and group process.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part Part 1 Elements of a paradigm -- chapter 1 Introduction and overview -- chapter 2 Towards a paradigm and epistemology for psychoanalytic group psychology -- part Part 2 Object relations and the self: from intrapsychic to interactive constructs -- chapter 3 Object relations theory -- chapter 4 Ego, self, and identification -- part Part 3 Systems theory, developmental psychology, and the group -- chapter 5 The group as an object relations system and representation -- chapter 6 The group analytic grid and the three systems: individual, interaction, group-qua-group -- chapter 7 Developmental group psychology -- part Part 4 Special topics -- chapter 8 The 'fourfold way' of group transference -- chapter 9 Group evolution -- chapter 10 On myth, symbol, and fantasy formation -- chapter 11 Group psychotherapy: some aspects of object relations, multiple systems, and countertransference -- chapter 12 Self-object differentiation.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This established text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and the self, through the perspective of general systems theory. It defines and discusses key constructs in each of the fields and illustrates them with practical examples.