Group Psychotherapy Books
Basic Groupwork
"Basic Groupwork" is a simple, practical guide to the processes groupwork. This new edition has been updated and revised to reflect the changes that have taken place in social behaviour since it was... (more)
Autobiography of a Theory: Developing a Theory of Living Human Systems and its Systems-Centered Practice
Systems-centered theory is one of the important developments in group- analytic thinking in the last few years. In this book, the author who has contributed significantly to its development, traces... (more)
Group Work with Sexually Abused Children: A Practitioner's Guide
This easy-to-follow manual presents techniques for working with groups of children who have been sexually abused.It begins with an overview of the theory and literature of group therapy with children... (more)
Small Groups as Complex Systems: Formation, Coordination, Development and Adaptation
This new general theory of small groups as complex systems draws on general systems theory, dynamical systems theory, and complexity and chaos theory. The authors view groups as adaptive, dynamic... (more)
Creative group therapy for women survivors of child sexual abuse: Speaking the unspeakable
Meekums presents creative groupwork strategies and techniques for professionals working with women who have experienced child sexual abuse. The book looks at theoretical issues, exploring the nature... (more)
Treating anxiety and stress: A group psycho-educational approach using brief CBT
This book presents clinically tested and cost effective group methods for treating stress and anxiety, which can be used with both large and small groups. All the concepts and methods are illustrated... (more)
Interactive group therapy:
Focusing on providing practical guidelines for leading groups, this book offers detailed suggestions for structuring groups, creating a therapeutic group climate, promoting interpersonal work and... (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)
A Guide to Starting Psychotherapy Groups
This guide aims to provide the reader with the elements needed for starting a therapy group. It should assist psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and other trained therapists in the process... (more)
The essential groupworker: Teaching and learning creative groupwork
This text explores the theory behind groupwork and the need for the groupworker to be aware of the occurrence of groups and patterns of group function in society. It describes how to plan, set up and... (more)
Social Identity Processes Trends in Theory and Research:
This landmark work offers the reader a tour of the latest developments in Social Identity Theory. This book will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and gradute students taking social... (more)
Organizations in depth: The psychoanalysis of organizations
Illustrated with numerous examples, this is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. 338 pages. (more)
Group Relations, Management, and Organization
This collection brings together new and important essays by an international group of authors. The authors represent different cultures, roles, and institutional backgrounds, as well as a variety of... (more)
Learning for Leadership: Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations
This study is designed to teach readers of the human problems of leadership, and to show new conceptions of leadership and new methods of training relevant to our modern industrial society.
This... (more)
The Use of Small Groups in Training
Describes the 'Tavistock Method', which marries psychodynamic principles derived from object-relations theory to the principles and techniques of group dynamics.
This volume is one of a series... (more)
Foundations and applications of group psychotherapy: A sphere of influence
Focusing on how to provide effective individual treatment within psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic groups, this text examines the structural properties of such gropus as organizational entities... (more)
Short-term psychotherapy groups for children: adapting group processes for specific problems:
The short-term group approach to child therapy is a method of helping children to overcome a range of emotional and behavioural problems. This work provides therapists at all levels of experience... (more)
Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society
This work presents an attempt to elucidate and develop Bettelheim's controversial insights on the behaviour of concentration camp inmates. A discussion of the significance of Bettelheim's findings... (more)
Rediscovering groups: A psychoanalyst's journey beyond individual psychology
This book is about the importance, usefulness and difficulties of emphasizing the properties of groups rather than the properties of individuals in understanding experiences in groups and... (more)
Action methods in group psychotherapy: Practical aspects
Based on the Interactive-Behaviour Group model created by the author, this book enables group counsellors/facilities to enact a group method that allows participants to experiment with interactive... (more)
Using Groups to Help People
This second edition of "Using Groups to Help People" focuses on anticipating and solving problems in group work, including: how and when to intervene. 356 pages. (more)
The Group Context
This introductory book describes the complex ideas integral to group work in a clear and accessible way, so as to make them available to a wide readership. 227 pages.
Therapeutic communities: Past, present and future
The concept of the Therapeutic Community challenges orthodox psychiatric management, propounding a radical, group-based therapeutic approach which is opposed to many current policies and approaches.... (more)
Group Counselling
This book provides a comprehensive examination of theories and concepts relating to group counselling and shows how differing theoretical frameworks can be used as a basis for practice. Organized... (more)
Group work with children and adolescents: Prevention and intervention in school and community systems
This new work presents the concepts, context and applications of a problem-solving approach to group work with children and adolescents. Key points are illustrated with the help of case examples for... (more)
Taking the Group Seriously: Towards a Post-Foulkesian Group Analytic Theory
In this critique and extension of Foulkes' work, Farhad Dalal presents a contemporary appraisal of the theory of group psychoanalysis as a whole. Dalal argues that Foulkes was ultimately unable to... (more)
Bion's Legacy to Groups
'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the... (more)
Work psychology and organizational behaviour: The management of the individual at work
Tracing the development of work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early 20th century to the present, this book focuses on the relations between knowledge, power and practice. The... (more)
Brief Group Counselling: Integrating individual and group cognitive behavioural approaches.
This volume focuses on concepts and methods of psychotherapy and counselling which can be used in a limited number of sessions with clients. The reader is shown how to build a model of the client's... (more)