Group

Part 1 Analytic work: an overall view. Part 2 Process of the group: the emergent state of the group; the stage of the community of brothers; common space of the group; genius loci. Part 3 The field: the field; self-representation and semiosphere. Part 4 Group thought: brain and mind; characteristics of group thought; therapeutic function of group thought; conditions for group thought; mimesis; oscillations between emotions and thought. Part 5 The group and the individual: the entry of new members; group experience on the arrival of new members; the group as self-object; commuting between individuals and the group field. trans-personal diffusion.

Irrespective of your views regarding psychoanalysis, if you intend working as a professional psychologist in any one of the numerous disciplines of psychology then this book is geared for you ... Neri provides an excellent reference and explanatory text for any discipline that involves working with individuals ... Group allows its readers to explore psychoanalysis from more than the American and British perspective. It opens the door into the world of French and Italian thinking, while encompassing the works of Freud, Bion and Foulkes, not to mention Claudio Neri's own wealth of experience ... Group will outlast many student days and remain an excellent reference well into professional practice: a brilliant read from a brilliant mind.