The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: Further Papers of Malcolm Pines
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Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2025
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 348
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Group Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 97972
- ISBN 13 : 9781032799537
- ISBN 10 : 1032799536
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The Journey from Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis presents a selection of papers from Malcolm Pines’s long career, documenting his profound contribution to group analysis and its applications.
John Schlapobersky, editor, is a well-established author who organised the collection in: History; Development of Method; Metapsychology/Neurology; Final Papers. The compilation distils the life’s work of a pioneer in many fields - psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, group analyst, editor and author. Pines’s writing encompasses psychoanalytic and group analytic theory, developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethology, social science, language theory and mythology. He seeks their integration in the crucible of group analysis.
The book will become an essential text in psychotherapy and therapeutic communities - of value to students and readers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, politics, social and neurological sciences, humanities and language theory.
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Few people have contributed as much to the growth of mental health care in the United Kingdom as the late Dr. Malcolm Pines. Over more than sixty years he transformed the profession, not least the discipline of group analysis, increasing the number of patients in treatment by an unparalleled percentage. We extend our deep thanks to John Schlapobersky – an esteemed clinician and author in his own right – for having prepared these highly-readable, core papers with such meticulousness.
Prof. Brett Kahr, senior fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London; Hon. director of research, Freud Museum London; visiting professor of psychoanalysis and mental health, Regent’s University
Malcolm Pines has piloted the ship of group analysis from its earliest days when Foulkes was at the helm, and he set its compass into the twenty first century with amazing prescience. In this enthralling compilation he revisits his journey from psychoanalysis to group analysis and brings together the social and biological worlds of discourse. His writing is coloured by reminiscences of the earlier pioneers. We find him admiring their ideas but refusing to be beholden to their monolithic schools. The result has been a liberating experience for practitioners all over the world whom he has inspired. He has not only chronicled the history of psychotherapy: he is an essential part of it and these papers represent the summation of his lifetime’s work.
Dr. Harold Behr, honorary member and training group analyst, Institute of Group Analysis, London; consultant psychiatrist; former editor, Group Analysis – The Journal
I can almost hear Malcom speaking as I read the papers - some of which I knew but not all. He saw himself as a teacher and would talk softly, not at length, waiting for those he taught to add their own ideas to what he was bringing. These papers are often quite short but always stimulate the reader or the student to see their own ideas from a different perspective. Malcolm was a life-long clinician who had a very deep love of learning. These papers show his excitement at the drama of connecting new learning to our group analytic frame. An erudite, stimulating collection.
Sue Einhorn, training group analyst, Institute of Group Analysis, London
Reading this book gave me great joy; it was like meeting Malcolm again still alive, with his spontaneity and freshness, clarity and depth. People who were lucky enough to know him will have the same joyful surprise on reading this book. Those who did not know him personally will have the opportunity to discover his great vitality and generosity. The enormous theoretical and organizational work done by Malcolm Pines throughout his life is impressive. Group Analysis is not only a healing discipline but an opportunity to expand the fields of linguistics, semiotics, communication and political science described here. The book is recommended not only for group therapists, psychoanalysts, and psychology students, but also for the general reader.
Prof. Claudio Neri, professor in psychology, la Sapienza University, Rome and la universita statale, Turin; training and supervising analyst, Italian Psychoanalytic Society; member, International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), London Institute of Group Analysis and Confederation of Italian Organizations for Analytic Research on Groups (COIRAG)
Malcolm Pines develops group analysis on wonderfully coherent terms in this collection which gives ‘an account of our lifelong and often unsuccessful struggle to become, and remain, relatively healthy human beings’ - living on reasonably good, tolerant relations with ourselves - our inner society - and with others - our external society.
John Schlapobersky has done a fine job selecting and editing the papers.
Dr. Robi Friedman, past president, Group Analytic Society International; co-founder, Israel Institute for Group Analysis and Past Chair
Malcolm and I first met at the Maudsley Hospital in 1975, where I was a young psychiatrist specialising in psychotherapy. Working with and being supervised by him was a lesson in the art of perceptive but gentle enquiry, always respectful of the whole person while exploring the reaches of their inner world. The breadth and depth of his erudition was astounding, yet always offered in the spirit of a Socratic dialogue among equals. His contribution to the field of analytic psychotherapy has been immense, leaving a legacy of outstanding scholarship and clinical acumen. Those of us who counted Malcolm a friend, remember with lasting affection the gentle giant of group analysis. I strongly commend this volume of his papers so thoughtfully edited by John Schlapobersky.
Dr Andrew Powell, formerly consultant psychotherapist and senior lecturer in Psychiatry, St George’s Hospital and University of London, and consultant psychotherapist and Hon. senior lecturer, the Warneford Hospital and University of Oxford
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Group analysis and group-analytic psychotherapy
Part 2: History and Context
2. The historical matrix of group analysis: A perspective from the history of ideas (1990)
3. The coherency of group analysis: Its emergence and surrounding, supporting network
4. Forgotten pioneers: An unwritten history of the therapeutic community – Maxwell Jones Lecture (1998)
Part 3: Development of Method and Technique in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy
5. Aims of a wandering psychotherapist – Interpretation, dialogue, response: Changes in psychoanalytic theory and technique
6. Dialogue and selfhood: Discovering connections
7. The self as a group: The group as a self
8. The contribution of mirroring and resonance to psychoanalytic and group-analytic dialogue
9. Changing times, changing realities: A group-analytic perspective on the history of psychotherapy
10. Resonance as a factor in the development of intimacy
11. Listening and the sonorous self
12. More about listening
Part 4: Metapsychology, Philosophy, Mind/Body
13. The ‘in-between’
14. Problems with Freud’s constitutional aggression and the virtues of group analysis
15. From social mind to social brain
16. Building on Bion, Following on Foulkes
Part 5: Final Papers
17. Training in group analysis: Where we have come from
18. Group analysis and the affective disorders
19. Myths and mirroring
20. Narcissus and Echo: Vision and hearing in early development. Applications to individual and group psychotherapy
Part 6: End Matter
About the Author(s)
John Schlapobersky is a Training Analyst, Supervisor and Teacher at the Institute of Group Analysis London and Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London. He is in private practice at the Bloomsbury Psychotherapy Practice where he works with individuals, couples and groups. He has trained generations of group analysts, teaches internationally and has many publications. This book is the professional life's work of a leading British group analyst.
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Malcolm Pines, FRCPsych, DPM, is past President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and former consultant to the Tavistock Clinic and Maudsley Hospital. The former Editor of Group Analysis, he is the author of Circular Reflections (Jessica Kingsley, 1998).
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