Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of groups : t he fourth basic assumption : incohesion : aggregation/massification or (ba) I:A/M /: t he fourth basic assumption : incohesion : aggregation/massification or (ba) I:A/M. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Earl Hopper ; foreword by Malcolm Pines.
• Other Names: Hopper, Earl
• Contents: Foreword, Malcolm Pines, Institute of Group Analysis, London. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Theory of Cohesion Proposed by Bion and Turquet, and Modified by Others. 2. The Fear of Annihilation and Traumatic Experience. 3. The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M. 4. The Personification of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification. 5. The Treatment of Difficult Patients in Clinical Group Analysis: The Personification of Aggregation by Pandoro. 6. The Personification of Massification by Pandora. 7. An Illustration of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in the Extreme: A Group of Child Survivors of the Shoah. 8. Summary, Invited Critical Commentaries, Discussion and Suggestions for Further Research and Applications: Richard M. Billow, Howard Kibel, Malcolm Pines, Bennett Roth, Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff, Victor L. Schermer, Walter Stone. Appendix I: Some Conceptual Distinctions about Social Formations from Sociology and Social Psychology. Appendix II: Encapsulation as a Defence against the Fear of Annihilation. References. Subject Index. Author Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 616.89/152; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General; Group psychotherapy; Group psychoanalysis; Psychic trauma; Social groups; Subconsciousness; Psychotherapy, Group; Group Processes; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Unconscious (Psychology); Group psychoanalysis; Group psychotherapy; Psychic trauma; Social groups; Subconsciousness; Psychotherapy; Social, Group Or Collective Psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846426391; 1846426391
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