Group Psychotherapy Books
Taking the Group Seriously: Towards a Post-Foulkesian Group Analytic Theory
In this critique and extension of Foulkes' work, Farhad Dalal presents a contemporary appraisal of the theory of group psychoanalysis as a whole. Dalal argues that Foulkes was ultimately unable to... (more)
Bion's Legacy to Groups
'It is characteristic of some forms of scientific genius to alter not just what we see in the world, but how we see it - not just the view, but the lens. One thinks of Freud's discovery of the... (more)
Work psychology and organizational behaviour: The management of the individual at work
Tracing the development of work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early 20th century to the present, this book focuses on the relations between knowledge, power and practice. The... (more)
Brief Group Counselling: Integrating individual and group cognitive behavioural approaches.
This volume focuses on concepts and methods of psychotherapy and counselling which can be used in a limited number of sessions with clients. The reader is shown how to build a model of the client's... (more)
Group Participation: Techniques for Leaders and Members: Second Edition
Basic techniques for achieving group success are described in the latest edition of this popular handbook for group facilitators, which clearly details when, how and why to use each technique.... (more)
Role Play: Theory and Practice
Role-play techniques are used as an important and widespread tool in many contexts and disciplines including research, therapy, organisational change and education. This text provides an explanation... (more)
Feminist Groupwork
Explores the purposes, practice and effectiveness of groupwork with women. It draws upon the author's own experience of setting up and running community-based women's groups. 200 pages. (more)
Creating Groups: Second Edition
This book presents useful guidelines for effectively composing new groups and modifying existing ones. It provides techniques and exercises based on the most recent group therapy research to help... (more)
Managing Stress
A thought-provoking and timely alternative to prevailing approaches to stress at work. This book sets stress at work in the context of wider debates about emotion, subjectivity and power in... (more)
Self Help and Support Groups
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Managing Workplace Stress
Stress in the workplace results in absenteeism, reduced productivity and increased health compensation claims. This book examines the causes of workplace stress and offers useful and practical advice... (more)
The Visible and Invisible Group
Understanding the psychodynamics of groups has derived from the two separate strands of theory and practice, resulting in two separate disciplines: group psychotherapy and group dynamics. ... (more)
Self Experiences in Group: Intersubjective and Self Psychological Pathways to Human Understanding
Using clinical examples, the contributors show the 'good enough' healing power of carefully constructed and supervised groups, using both Kohut's self psychological concepts and contemporary ideas of... (more)
Art Psychotherapy Groups: Between Pictures and Words
Many art therapists are now also trained in group analytic psychotherapy. This text explores the theories and models arising from the merging of these two disciplines. Case studies illustrate the... (more)
Group Therapy With Troubled Youth: A Cognitive Behavioral Interactive Approach:
The author offers practical strategies for treating adolescents in a variety of group settings. He incorporates cognitive, behavioural, and social resources along with small group theory into one... (more)
Reflections on Therapeutic Storymaking: The Use of Stories in Groups
This text examines the practice of therapeutic storymaking. In particular, it considers the ideas behind the method. Theoretical reflections are interspersed with storytelling. Topics dealt with... (more)
Concise Guide to Group Psychotherapy
This guide examines the unique therapeutic value of group psychotherapy. Written for the clinician in need of concise, clinically relevant information, this book discusses how the patient-patient and... (more)
Psychodrama: Group Psychotherapy as Experimental Theatre
As well as examining the specific field of psychodrama, this text relates the topic to the history and practice of the theatre, providing new angles and insights. It includes discussion of the theory... (more)
Change, Intervention and Consequence: An exploration of the process of
The author examines what intentional change processes are and places them in relation to the natural development of human change and to the question of consequences. His principle theme concerns the... (more)
Group Work with Children and Adolescents
A comprehensive resource manual, this book looks at the theory and development of group work as a form of therapy, the settings in which group work may be used, and effective therapeutic methods. 345... (more)
Identities, Groups and Social Issues
This accessible and authoritative textbook presents an engaging overview of social psychological research on groups, the development of social identity, intergroup relations and the process of making... (more)
Therapy as Social Construction
This volume explores the exciting possibilities for the therapeutic process of adopting a social constructionist perspective. A key concern is with socially constructed lives. Our senses of self,... (more)
The Third Eye: Supervision of analytic groups
Brings together the thoughts of experienced practitioners of group analysis and the reactions of those they have supervised. 174 pages. (more)
The Neurotic Organisation: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management
Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic... (more)
Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management
Second Edition. This book aims to help individuals within organisations to make sense of the things going on around them. Presented in the form of case vignettes, it covers themes such as: power;... (more)
Object Relations, The Self and the Group
This text presents a framework for integrating group psychology with psychoanalytic theories of object relations, the ego and self, through the perspective of general systems theory. It defines and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Group Therapy
Karl Konig and Wulf-Volker Lindner have distilled their many years of research, rich clinical experience, and extensive theoretical knowledge of analytic group psychotherapy. Now, for the first time... (more)
The Personality of the Organization: A Psycho-dynamic Explanation of Culture and Change
Argues that current theories about organisational culture fail because they concentrate on simple, surface issues, and make no attempt to deal with underlying, unconscious processes. Taking concepts... (more)
Combining Individual and Group Therapy
An approach to combining individual and group psychotherapy by translating analytic theory and principles of treatment into interpersonal and behavioural terms, illustrating points with clinical... (more)