Ring of Fire: Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy

Editor : Victor L. Schermer, Author(s) : Malcolm Pines

Ring of Fire: Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 1994
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Category :
    Group Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 1652
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415066822
  • ISBN 10 : 0415066824
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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 collective themes and early infantile object relations, first identified by the likes of Foulkes and Bion. 316 pages.

About the Editor(s)

Victor L. Schermer, MA, LFAGPA, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Philadelphia, PA, in the practice of individual, group, and family psychotherapy. He received a masters degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and Certification with Honours in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, where he later served as a faculty member. He is a life fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). In 2002 he was co-recipient of the Alonso Award for scholarship in the field of dynamic group psychotherapy awarded by the Group Psychotherapy Foundation of AGPA. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy and has published seven books and over forty journal articles and reviews about psychoanalysis, group psychotherapy, object relations theory, self psychology, psycho-spirituality, and the psychoanalytic interpretation of poetry and cinema.

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Malcolm Pines, FRCPsych, DPM, is past President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and former consultant to the Tavistock Clinic and Maudsley Hospital. The former Editor of Group Analysis, he is the author of Circular Reflections (Jessica Kingsley, 1998).

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