The Evolution of Group Analysis

The application of some principles of group analytic psychotherapy to higher education, M.L.J. Abercrombie, former President of Group Analytic Society, London; some complementary functions of group-analytic psychotherapy and individual psychoanalysis, Wilfred Abse, University of Virginia; the group-analytic circle and its ambient network, E. James Anthony, founder member of Group Analytic Society, London; out-patient analytic group psychotherapy, Barbara Dick; some contributions of general systems theory to psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, Helen E. Durkin, Post Graduate Centre for Mental Health, New York; adolescent group theory and adult groups, John Evans, Royal Edinburgh Hospital; analytical psychology and group-analytic psychotherapy: convergences, Romano Fiumara, University of Rome; group-analytic therapy of university chaplains, David R. Hawkins, University of Chicago; the effect of numbers on the basic transference pattern in group-analysis, H.J. Home, founder member of Institute of Group Analysis; meaning and information in the group process, Ernest H. Hutten, University of London; group analytic psychotherapy according to Foulkes and psychoanalysis according to Lacan, Michel Laxenaire, Universite de Nancy; why group analysis works, M. Rita and M. Leal, University of Lisbon; the concept of the therapeutic community, Tom Main, former President of Institute of Psychosexual Medicine; Michael Foulkes and the Northfield experiment, Patrick de Mar, former President of Group Analytic Society, London; historical perspectives of group analysis, Helle Munro, University of Copenhagen; the contribution of S.H. Foulkes to group therapy, Malcolm Pines, founder member of Institute of Group Analysis; affective warp and metascience, Juan Rof-Carballo, founder of Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine, Madrid; philosophers, ideologies and outcomes in group psychotherapy, Max Rosenbaum, Adelphi University, USA; individual and group psychology - are they opposed? Saul Scheidlinger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York; group analysis and family therapy, A.C. Robin Skynner, former Chairman of Institute of Family Therapy; the group process in Chekhov's plays, Sheila Thompson, former Principal Mental Health Social Worker, London; on the Diogenes search - Anthropos and his suprasystems, George A. Vassiliou, Director of the Athenian Institute of Anthropos.