Gods, Heroes and Groups: Relational Dynamics through Mythic Archetypes

Author(s) : Brant Elwood, Author(s) : Aodhán Moran

Gods, Heroes and Groups: Relational Dynamics through Mythic Archetypes

Book Details

  • Publisher : Karnac Books
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 150
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Group Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 97812
  • ISBN 13 : 9781800132870
  • ISBN 10 : 1800132875

Table of Contents

About the authors
Foreword by Leslie Brissett
Introduction

1. The work
2. A little bit of theory: projection and projective identification
3. Creation myths and early group stages
4. Hierarchies and power in groups
5. Leadership succession and worship
6. Murder and death
7. Unions and pairings
8. Incest and group diversity
9. Attraction and contempt
10. War and competition
11. Scapegoating
12. The great floods and groupthink
13. The Drama Triangle
14. Sabotage and crisis compulsion in organisations
15. The crisis compulsion
16. The pain of transformation
17. Collision of paradigms: isomorphism vs projection
18. Grief and adjourning
19. Here-and-now work for us as a culture

References
Index

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