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Foundations and Applications of Group Psychotherapy: A Sphere of Influen

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Focusing on how to provide effective individual treatment within psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic groups, this text examines the structural properties of such groups as organizational entities in their own right. It is divided into sections covering foundations and applications. The former looks at the history and epistemology of the grouping process, considering both practical and philosophical questions. The latter looks at specific psychoeducational and psychotherapeutic uses of the group medium, from which the reader can expect to gain both in-depth understanding of the human grouping process and a practical knowledge of how to organize, facilitate, and manage collective treatment regimens. The final chapter considers the logistics of small-group participation and the mythic roots of small-group culture.
Part 1 Introduction: the logos of small-group participation -structural guidelines and organizational formats. Part 2 Foundations - history: sitting on Socrates walking groups; the invention of modern group treatment at the turn of the 20th century; the growth spurt of group psychotherapy - innovation prior to World War II. Part 3 Foundations - epistemology: a group is a group is a group? building a collective experience through inductive processes; the epistemology of the group-as-a-whole -relying on deduction to render the group intelligible; the art of depiction - finding meaning in the collective process. Part 4 Applications - psychoeducation: myth, metaphor and miracle in the moment of making - leadership and residence in unstructured process groups; managing group process in nonprocess groups -working with structures theme-centred tasks; group development -building protocols for psychoeducational groups. Part 5 Applications - psychotherapy: sphere of influence - holding together in remote groups; group analysis - a causal paradigm for working through impasse; the group as a cultural phenomenon -transforming experience through collective imagery. Part 6 Conclusion: the mythos of small-group culture - object relations and primitive processes; the evolution of the human collective - a myth for modern times.
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