Group Psychotherapy Books
Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction
Drawing upon social and literary accounts of discourse, this text examines the challenges to empiricism made under the banner of social construction. It outlines the elements of a social... (more)
Handbook of Group Psychotherapy: An Empirical and Clinical Synthesis
This is a comprehensive survey of all empirical evidence regarding process and outcome in group psychotherapy, with a focus on current and future directions in group research. The contributors cover... (more)
An Introduction to Therapeutic Communities
An introduction to the theories behind and the practice of therapeutic communities. 200 pages. (more)
Gods, Heroes and Groups: Relational Dynamics through Mythic Archetypes
Decoding group dynamics using depth psychology and mythic archetypes, the authors synthesise post-Jungian ideas about myth with modern theories of group psychology. By understanding the currents and... (more)
Advances in Group Psychotherapy: Living in the Passionate Bad Fit
Advances in Group Psychotherapy presents an exploration of the work of Stewart Aledort in group psychotherapy.
The book covers key areas of Aledort’s work in group psychotherapy, including... (more)
The Power of Group Attachment: John Bowlby Revisited from a Group-Analytic Perspective
The Power of Group Attachment provides evidence for the fundamental role that interpersonal and group attachment have played in our survival and evolution as individuals, groups, organisations, and... (more)
Focused Brief Group Therapy: An Integrative Approach to Reducing Interpersonal Distress
Focused Brief Group Therapy is an integrative interpersonal approach to brief group therapy that uses formal assessment to guide and inform treatment.
Interpersonal relationships are an... (more)
Revitalization Through Transactional Analysis Group Treatment: Human Nature and Its Deterioration
This innovative book describes the original essence particular to the human species and details the steps necessary to help re-establish this essence, in cases when it has deteriorated, in a... (more)
Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice: A Measurement-Based Care Approach
Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice is the definitive guide to assessment in group therapy, offering the reader a means to understand and implement group therapy screening, process, and... (more)
Dreaming the Social: From 9/11 to Covid
Dreaming the Social uses social dreaming as a tool to explore aspects of contemporary life and examine how we can reverse social fragmentation and large-scale trauma. Since the attack on New York on... (more)
Group Radical Openness: An Intervention for Overcontrol
This innovative book introduces Group Radical Openness (GRO), a group treatment for individuals who struggle with costly and harmful overcontrol.
The book opens with the background and evolution... (more)
Creative Activities for Group Therapy: Second Edition
The second edition of Creative Activities for Group Therapy focuses on evidence-based alternatives for verbal expression in group therapy, which provides group leaders with innovative inspirational... (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)
Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: A Workbook for the 'No Kids in the Middle' Intervention Programme
Group Therapy for High-Conflict Divorce: A Workbook for the 'No Kids in the Middle' Intervention Programme is an essential resource for reframing the divorce process to centre the child.
This... (more)
Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness: Trusting the Process
Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness offers a fresh approach for professionals working with older individuals by employing new and exciting custom methodologies in psychodrama,... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups
The leading guide to group-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has now been significantly revised with 70% new material, reflecting over 15 years of research and clinical advances. Too often,... (more)
Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness
Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of... (more)
From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups: Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations
From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations, ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France... (more)
Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Professionals
This book presents the therapist with a reflective and robust framework for group treatment that promotes an end to the shame and secrecy so frequently experienced by survivors.
Through a series... (more)
The Ethics of Group Psychotherapy: Principles and Practical Strategies
The Ethics of Group Psychotherapy provides group psychotherapists with the ethical and legal foundation needed to engage in effective decision-making in their everyday group practices.
This text... (more)
Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence: Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments
The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our... (more)
Focused Group Analytic Psychotherapy: An Integration of Clinical Experience and Research
This practical text lays out a new form of focused, time-limited group analytic psychotherapy, built on new and existing research, and integrating clinical experience from across the field. ... (more)
An Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater: Hall of Mirrors on Stage
An Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater is a comprehensive book presenting Psychotherapeutic Playback Theater as a unique form of group psychotherapy.
This pioneering book is the... (more)
Group Art Therapy: Practice and Research
Group Art Therapy: Practice and Research is the first textbook of its kind, taking into account practice-based evidence and using a transtheoretical approach to present a range of art therapy group... (more)
Group Therapy in Transactional Analysis: Theory through Practice
Tangolo and Massi offer a complete manual for transactional analysis (TA)-based group therapy. Group Therapy in Transactional Analysis demonstrates the evolution of TA as a relational psychodynamic... (more)
The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations: Global Perspectives on the Neural Underpinnings of Intergroup Behaviour, Ingroup Bias and Prejudice
This path-breaking book is the first collection to provide a scientific global overview on the social neuroscience of intergroup relations, and the neural mechanisms that drive processes such as... (more)
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy: Sixth Edition
Hailed by Jerome Frank as "the best book that exists on the subject," Irvin D. Yalom and Molyn Leszcz's The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for... (more)
Women, Intersectionality, and Power in Group Psychotherapy Leadership
This ground-breaking book presents multifaceted perspectives to examine assumptions about gender, intersecting identities, and power that impact women's experience as group psychotherapy leaders,... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis and Beyond: Towards a New Paradigm of the Human Being
Psychoanalysis, Group Analysis and Beyond presents an important new paradigm in psychoanalysis and group analysis, presenting the individual and the group as elements of a wider whole and taking... (more)
Group Relations and Other Meditations: Psychoanalytic explorations on the uncertainties of experiential learning
This book examines the Tavistock tradition of using group relations conferences as temporary training organizations for groups and institutions, and how those can inform and enrich the theory and... (more)