Group Psychotherapy Books
The Personal Development Group: The Student's Guide
The Personal Development Group plays a key part in counselling and psychotherapy training, and this book offers an insight into how it works and how to make best use of it. Taking the perspective of... (more)
Group Analytic Therapists at Work: Everyday Group Analysis
Group Analytic Therapists at Work is an accessible introduction to the experience of being in group analytic psychotherapy from a wide range of perspectives.
Written by members of the Group... (more)
Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle: Foulkes Revisited from a Group Attachment and Developmental Perspective
Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with meticulous... (more)
Sibling Relations and the Horizontal Axis in Theory and Practice: Contemporary Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Organization Consultancy
This book explores the interpersonal world of sibling relationships, explaining how these relationships are central to the development of the psyche of the individual, of the group, of society and of... (more)
A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix: How Siblings Shape our Lives
Siblings play a vital part in our lives, yet their impact is frequently underestimated. A Group-Analytic Exploration of the Sibling Matrix offers a fresh group analytic approach to siblings,... (more)
Theory and Practice of Online Therapy: Internet-delivered Interventions for Individuals, Groups, Families, and Organizations
This innovative new resource outlines the process of conducting individual, family and group therapy online with the use of video conferencing tools, and explores the unique concerns associated with... (more)
Group Therapy for Psychoses
Group therapy for patients with psychotic experiences is one of the least known of the group therapies; it is also one of the most diverse. This collection presents a range of methods, models and... (more)
The Group as an Object of Desire: Exploring Sexuality in Group Therapy
Why do people find it so difficult to talk openly about sex? In this original and ground-breaking book, Morris Nitsun argues that desire and sexuality are key components of human experience that have... (more)
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?
So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected... (more)
Permission to Narrate: Explorations in Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis, Culture
Permission to Narrate develops exciting new theory and explorations for group analysis. They are diverse in range and, from differing bases in theory and research, aim to cast light on how clients... (more)
Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy: Fifth Edition
Regarded as the definitive practitioner reference and text, this accessible work addresses all aspects of setting up therapy groups and making them work. A wealth of clinical material illustrates the... (more)
Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An Approach to Working in Groups Using Insights from Wilfred Bion
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... (more)
Forensic Group Psychotherapy: The Portman Clinic Approach
Forensic Group Psychotherapy: The Portman Clinic Approach stands as a comprehensive account of theoretical and practical approaches to the group treatment of patients who present with problematic... (more)
Small, Large and Median Groups: The Work of Patrick de Maré
'This book is a remarkable tribute to the memory of Pat de Maré. You will find in these pages a selection of his work that represents his new and different understanding of groups, both large and... (more)
The Dialogues in and of the Group: Lacanian Perspectives on the Psychoanalytic Group
This book is intended to be an introductory presentation of some key concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis as applied to the psychoanalytic group. The author describes his own encounter with Lacan and... (more)
The Paradox of Internet Groups: Alone in the Presence of Virtual Others
The new virtual era is already here. We use the internet every day, to retrieve information, to purchase merchandise, and to connect with others. But do we really understand the psychology of the... (more)
Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3 Rs
Richard M. Billow expands and develops his ideas, first presented in Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion. He constructs a theoretically sophisticated, yet... (more)
The Creativity of Social Dreaming
This broad range of papers covers different aspects of social dreaming.
The book begins with a summary of the Social Dreaming Matrix conceptualised as a temporary system with its intakes,... (more)
Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing
We are running out of ideas in Western society. Faced with global warming, Third World devastation, nuclear proliferation and the threat posed by religious conflict, we need new ways of thinking.... (more)
Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion
Integrating relational theory with technique, this text reveals the personal nature of the process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and group members. It builds on Bion's early... (more)
Group Psychotherapy for People with Chronic Mental Illness
Providing a cost-effective treatment model that is respectful of patients' needs, their strengths, and their limitations, this volume presents the first dynamic and coherent approach to group... (more)
The Psyche and the Social World: Developments in Group-Analytic Theory
Since his death, the ideas of S.H. Foulkes have been used and developed by many colleagues and followers. "The Psyche and the Social World" presents a coherent review of his basic ideas in the light... (more)
Introduction to Groupwork: A Group-Analytic Perspective
Building on the individual's personal experience of groups, starting in the family, the authors offer an account of why things happen as they do in groups, providing a basis for developing groupwork... (more)
The Large Group: Dynamics and Therapy
This important, pioneering book collates our knowledge of large groups, both at a theoretical and practical level. Thirteen distinguished contributors offer experiences from a wide range of... (more)
Selected Papers: Psychoanalysis and Group Analysis
The collection of Foulkes' papers, which includes some unpublished material and some published in English for the first time, comprises not only the later Group-Analytic writings but also those from... (more)
What Happens in Groups: Psychoanalysis, the Individual and the Community
Systematically works through the psychoanalytic concepts which bear on what happens in groups, with examples from the author's own practice, and readings of the works of Klein, Bion and Menzies-Lyth.... (more)
The Group Dimension: Capitalism, Group Analysis, and the World Yet to Come
The Group Dimension presents a thorough exploration of the history and theory of the group dimension, particularly in the context of modern capitalist society.
The book traces the development of... (more)
The Ecosystem of Group Relations: Culture, Gender and Identity in Groups and Organizations
The unconscious dynamics that surface in groups when authority is exercised are of paramount importance in Group Relations Conferences; this volume addresses these considerations through research... (more)
Pierre Delion on Psychopolitics: 'What is Institutional Psychotherapy?' and 'The Republic of False Selves'
Pierre Delion is Professor Emeritus in the faculty of medicine at Lille, a child psychiatrist, and a psychoanalyst. His work is as straightforward as it is affecting but is little read in the... (more)
A Psychotherapist Paints: Insights from the Border of Art and Psychotherapy
A Psychotherapist Paints is a unique account of an internationally known psychotherapist and group analyst’s struggle to bring together his psychological experience and his interests and talent as an... (more)