Group Psychotherapy Books
The Personal Development Group: The Student's Guide
The personal development group is a feature of many counselling and psychotherapy trainings. How does it facilitate personal development? Could it be more effective? Looking from the perspective of... (more)
Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women: A Group Leader's Handbook
This book provides a practical, comprehensive guide to the group treatment of obesity. It is derived from a 5 year research project and draws upon elements of CBT and a variety of other counselling... (more)
Envy, Competition and Gender: Theory, Clinical Applications and Group Work
Envy Competition and Gender provides a unique perspective on gender difference in relation to envy and competitiveness, reframing and de-demonising these difficult emotions and revealing their... (more)
Cognitive Therapy in Groups: Guidelines and Resources for Practice: Second Edition
The book guides the therapist through the selection of participants and the main phases of cognitive therapy: education, identification of automatic thoughts using the ABC method, identification of... (more)
Dynamic Security: The Democratic Therapeutic Community in Prison
"Dynamic Security" describes the inner workings and dynamics of democratic therapeutic communities (TCs) in prisons. Chapters on theory, practice, management and on outcome and evaluation of work in... (more)
Resonance and Reciprocity: Selected Papers by Dennis Brown
This collection of papers, published between 1976 and 2003, traces the innovative connections which the eminent group analyst Dennis Brown made between medicine and psychoanalysis. They reveal his... (more)
Small Groups
The goal of this volume is to capture that diversity, and thereby convey the breadth and excitement of small group research by acquainting students with work on five fundamental aspects of groups.... (more)
Working with Gangs and Young People: A Toolkit for Resolving Group Conflict
Concern about gang culture is on the increase, but remains surrounded by myths. While gangs may lead young people into dangerous situations and breed community division, distrust and fear, the... (more)
Individuality and the Group: Advances in Social Identity
Social identity research has transformed psychology and the social sciences. Developed around intergroup relations, perspectives on social identity have now been applied fruitfully to a diverse array... (more)
Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Older People
The author shows that working with older people need not be a chore, but exciting and stimulating, using storymaking as a basis. Echoing the oral tradition of mankind, the text shows how to use a... (more)
Working in Group Care: Social Work and Social Care in Residential and Day Care Settings
Working in group care (ie: residential and day services) is a challenging and complex task, demanding great skill, patience, knowledge and understanding. This book explains how the best practice can... (more)
Group Relations Conferences: Reviewing and Exploring Theory, Design, Role-Taking and Application
Group Relations Conferences contains the collection of papers presented at the Belgirate conference plus two additional papers, representing a collective picture of the current group relations... (more)
The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations: Integrating the Group Relations Approach, Psychoanalytic, and Open Systems Perspectives
This authoritative source book on the learning and creative application of the systems psychodynamic perspective defines the field, presenting the key concepts, models, and social methodologies that... (more)
Group Analytic Art Therapy
Written by an internationally renowned psychotherapist, this comprehensive reference provides readers with a practical and theoretical framework for using group art therapy in a range of settings. It... (more)
Individuals, Groups and Organizations Beneath the Surface: An Introduction
This volume is an introductory text to the individual and organizational dynamics by an author with extensive experience in the field. It examines the unconscious processes of human behaviour that... (more)
Systems-Centered Practice: Selected Papers on Group Psychotherapy
Systems-Centered Practice presents a series of papers that trace the development of the theory of living human systems between 1987 and 2002. As the theory develops, so do the methods and techniques... (more)
Introduction to Social Dreaming: Transforming Thinking
This preliminary text explores the phenomenon of social dreaming, a concept first introduced at the Tavistock Institute in 1982. The focus is on the dream and the social context of the dreamers... (more)
Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction
Group Psychotherapy and Recovery from Addiction: Carrying the Message is NOT a self-help book. Instead, it’s a rare opportunity to sit in on a virtual therapy group and take part in a virtual Twelve... (more)
A Culture of Enquiry: Research Evidence and the Therapeutic Community
This work sets out the methods and results of people researching into TC (therapeutic communities). It presents a selection of research investigating various aspects of TC treatment environments that... (more)
Systems-Centered Therapy for Groups
Systems-Centered Therapy (SCT) is an innovative approach to psychotherapy that synthesizes a finely-tuned awareness of the defensive roles of anxiety and depression, with an analysis of the phases of... (more)
Social Construction: A Reader
A collection of classic and contemporary articles, representing the major viewpoints central to social constructionism. It provides the reader with an overview of the key empirical research ideas and... (more)
A quarter of a century of community psychology: Readings from the American journal of community psychology
This work contains research from the first 25 years of the "American Journal of Community Psychology", selected to reflect community psychology's rich tradition of theory, empirical research, action,... (more)
Complexity and Group Processes: A Radically Social Understanding of Individuals
The increasing complexity of interdependence between people in modern life makes it more important than ever to understand processes of human relating. In the West we tend to base our understanding... (more)
Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (Hardback)
Building on Bion's early theory of group and his later formulations regarding the structure of thought and the role of affect, this work expands on the present understanding of relational theory and... (more)
Relational Responsibility: Resources for Sustainable Dialogue
Questioning the tradition of individual responsibility, this pioneering book also transforms the concept of responsibility by giving centre stage to the relational process rather than to the... (more)
Group action: The dynamics of groups in therapeutic, educational and corporate settings
Martin Ringer outlines techniques for understanding groups that should be relevant to those who lead teams in any setting. The result is a guide to both leading a group, and to understanding the... (more)
Rational Emotive Behaviour Group Therapy
This is the first book devoted to group therapy applications of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). REBT is an active--directive, psychoeducational approach to psychotherapy and as such it is... (more)
Experiences in Social Dreaming
Social Dreaming is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. In the first chapter, he outlines... (more)
