Group Psychotherapy Books
Role Play: Theory and Practice
Role-play techniques are used as an important and widespread tool in many contexts and disciplines including research, therapy, organisational change and education. This text provides an explanation... (more)
Feminist Groupwork
Explores the purposes, practice and effectiveness of groupwork with women. It draws upon the author's own experience of setting up and running community-based women's groups. 200 pages. (more)
Creating Groups: Second Edition
This book presents useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and modifying existing ones. It provides techniques and exercises based on the most recent group therapy research to help... (more)
Managing Stress
A thought-provoking and timely alternative to prevailing approaches to stress at work. This book sets stress at work in the context of wider debates about emotion, subjectivity and power in... (more)
Self Help and Support Groups
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Managing Workplace Stress
Stress in the workplace results in absenteeism, reduced productivity and increased health compensation claims. This book examines the causes of workplace stress and offers useful and practical advice... (more)
The Visible and Invisible Group
Understanding the psychodynamics of groups has derived from the two separate strands of theory and practice, resulting in two separate disciplines: group psychotherapy and group dynamics. ... (more)
Self Experiences in Group: Intersubjective and Self Psychological Pathways to Human Understanding
Using clinical examples, the contributors show the 'good enough' healing power of carefully constructed and supervised groups, using both Kohut's self psychological concepts and contemporary ideas of... (more)
Art Psychotherapy Groups: Between Pictures and Words
Many art therapists are now also trained in group analytic psychotherapy. This text explores the theories and models arising from the merging of these two disciplines. Case studies illustrate the... (more)
Group Therapy With Troubled Youth: A Cognitive Behavioral Interactive Approach:
The author offers practical strategies for treating adolescents in a variety of group settings. He incorporates cognitive, behavioural, and social resources along with small group theory into one... (more)
Concise Guide to Group Psychotherapy
This guide examines the unique therapeutic value of group psychotherapy. Written for the clinician in need of concise, clinically relevant information, this book discusses how the patient-patient and... (more)
Psychodrama: Group psychotherapy as experimental theatre
As well as examining the specific field of psychodrama, this text relates the topic to the history and practice of the theatre, providing new angles and insights. It includes discussion of the theory... (more)
Change, Intervention and Consequence: An exploration of the process of
The author examines what intentional change processes are and places them in relation to the natural development of human change and to the question of consequences. His principle theme concerns the... (more)
Group Work with Children and Adolescents
A comprehensive resource manual, this book looks at the theory and development of group work as a form of therapy, the settings in which group work may be used, and effective therapeutic methods. 345... (more)
Identities, Groups and Social Issues
This accessible and authoritative textbook presents an engaging overview of social psychological research on groups, the development of social identity, intergroup relations and the process of making... (more)
Koinonia: From Hate, through Dialogue, to Culture in the Larger Group
A study of the larger group, focusing on the processes and dynamics whereby the group micro-culture emerges. As the initial frustrations of the group find expression in hate, this is transformed... (more)
Therapy as Social Construction
This volume explores the exciting possibilities for the therapeutic process of adopting a social constructionist perspective. A key concern is with socially constructed lives. Our senses of self,... (more)
Introduction to Group-Analytic Psychotherapy: Studies in the Social Integration of Individuals and Groups
Group Analysis, the approach pioneered by Foulkes, is a form of psychotherapy in small groups and also a method of studying groups and the behavior of human individuals in their social aspects. Apart... (more)
The Third Eye: Supervision of analytic groups
Brings together the thoughts of experienced practitioners of group analysis and the reactions of those they have supervised. 174 pages. (more)
Bion and Group Psychotherapy
Bion's synthesis of the approach of classical psychoanalysis based on the individual with that of group dynamics has been of enduring influence. The authors of this work, all closely associated with... (more)
Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity
Achieving decisive, accountable, value-adding, managerial leadership is critical to effective organizations. Jaques and Clement approach this leadership question in an entirely new way. By clarifying... (more)
The Neurotic Organisation: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management
Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic... (more)
Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management
Second Edition. This book aims to help individuals within organisations to make sense of the things going on around them. Presented in the form of case vignettes, it covers themes such as: power;... (more)
Object Relations, The Self and the Group
This text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and self, through the perspective of general systems theory. It defines and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Group Therapy
Karl Konig and Wulf-Volker Lindner have distilled their many years of research, rich clinical experience, and extensive theoretical knowledge of analytic group psychotherapy. Now, for the first time... (more)
The Personality of the Organization: A Psycho-dynamic Explanation of Culture and Change
Argues that current theories about organisational culture fail because they concentrate on simple, surface issues, and make no attempt to deal with underlying, unconscious processes. Taking concepts... (more)
Combining Individual and Group Therapy
An approach to combining individual and group psychotherapy by translating analytic theory and principles of treatment into interpersonal and behavioural terms, illustrating points with clinical... (more)
Resolving Resistance in Group Psychotherapy
A study of individual and group resistances in therapy illustrated by numerous clinical vignettes. It offers techniques for handling and resolving resistance within the group and a theoretical... (more)
Ring of Fire: Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy
An original collection in which the contributors describe their research and therapeutic experiences working with the 'ring of fire' - the profound emotions and energies in a group recalling... (more)