Research Catalog

Title

Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of groups : the fourth basic assumption : incohesion : aggregation/massification or (ba) I:A/M / Earl Hopper ; foreword by Malcolm Pines.

Author

Hopper, Earl

Publication

London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003.

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Description

240 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International library of group analysis ; 23

Uniform Title

International library of group analysis 23.

Subject

• Group psychotherapy
• Group psychoanalysis
• Psychic trauma
• Social groups
• Subconsciousness
• Psychotherapy, Group
• Group Processes
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic
• Unconscious, Psychology

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-229) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Theory of Cohesion Proposed by Bion and Turquet, and Modified by Others -- 2. The Fear of Annihilation and Traumatic Experience -- 3. The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M -- 4. The Personification of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification -- 5. The Treatment of Difficult Patients in Clinical Group Analysis: The Personification of Aggregation by Pandoro -- 6. The Personification of Massification by Pandoroa -- 7. An Illustration of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in the Extreme: A Group of Child Survivors of the Shoah -- 8. Summary, Invited Critical Commentaries, Discussion and Suggestions for Further Research and Applications -- App. I. Some Conceptual Distinctions about Social Formations from Sociology and Social Psychology -- App. II. Encapsulation as a Defence against the Fear of Annihilation -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

ISBN

1843100878 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002043372

OCLC

155844045

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library