Research Catalog

Title

A bridge over troubled water : conflicts and reconciliation in groups and society / edited by Gila Ofer.

Publication

• London : Karnac, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Ofer, Gila, 1947-
• European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services

Description

xxv, 222 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book is a compilation of papers by different authors, among them Vamik Volkan, Robi Friedman, John Schlapobersky, Haim Weinberg, and Michael Bucholz, with a foreword by Earl Hopper and an introduction by Gila Ofer, both editor and contributor. While most of the writers are group analysts, working in the tradition of Foulkes, several others come from different though complementary perspectives, enriching the theoretical basis of the research. So, there are perspectives, inter alia, from Bion and Cortesao. The writers represent different countries and cultures, focusing on problems that are endemic to their own localities that yet have a wider and deeper resonance. We are introduced to conflict and division in Bedouin society, the Roma people living in Greece, citizens' reflective communities in Serbia, continuing territorial and ideological differences in Israel and the middle-east, and tensions of difference in the psychoanalytic community itself. The book throws light on some of society's most intractable problems, generating compassion and understanding in place of hatred and division. If we have mostly become wary of hope and optimism in an embattled world, the message that reconciliation and forgiveness are possible, and that there are practical steps to achieving this, rather than idle dreams, makes this an important book with relevance to all those trying to make sense of present times and finding their role as responsible citizens."--

Series Statement

The EFPP Monograph Series

Uniform Title

EFPP clinical monograph series

Subject

• Conflict management > Psychological aspects
• Conflict management > Psychological aspects

Note

• "Published by Karnac for the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Large-group trauma at the hands of the "other" : transgenerational transmissions, and chosen traumas / Vamık D. Volkan -- Group analysis on war and peace / John R. Schlapobersky -- Forgiving and non-forgiving in group analysis / Gila Ofer -- Conciliation and comfort : group work with Bedouin grandmothers / Smadar Ben-Asher, Wisam Maree -- Dealing with conflicts, rage, anger, and aggression in group analysis / Isaura Manso Neto, Mario David -- Conflicts and social transference in groups / Klimis Navridis -- "Untouchable infant gangs" in groups and social matrices as obstacles to reconciliation / Marina Mojović -- The social unconscious and issues of conflict and reconciliation in therapy / Haim Weinberg -- Us and them : an object relations approach to understanding the dynamics of inter-groups conflicts / Uri Levin -- Enemies' love story : reconciliation in the presence of foes / Robi Friedman -- Lines of conflict in psychoanalysis : reconciliation in the future? / Michael B. Buchholz -- Psychoanalytic approaches to conflict resolution : the limits of intersubjective engagement / Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot.

ISBN

• 9781782205777
• 1782205772

OCLC

• 967865394
• SCSB-10719118

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library