Relational group psychotherapy : from basic assumptions to passion / Richard M. Billow ; foreword by Malcolm Pines ; with an introduction by James S. Grotstein.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-248) and indexes.

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Relational Group Psychotherapy; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Preface: Plan of the Book; Chapter 1 The Authority of the Group Therapist's Psychology; Chapter 2 The Therapist's Anxiety and Resistance to Group; Chapter 3 The Basic Conflict: To Think or Anti-think -- Applying Bion's Theory of Thinking in the Group Context; Chapter 4 Entitled Thinking, Dream Thinking, and Group Process; Chapter 5 Containing and Thinking -- The Three Relational Levels of the Container-Contained; Chapter 6 Containing the Adolescent Group; Chapter 7 Bonding in Group -- The Therapist's Contribution.

Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from traditional approaches in group psychotherapy. Instead, he places emphasis on the effect of the therapist's own evolving psychology on what occurs and what does not occur in group psychotherapy. Building on Bion's early theory of group and his later formulations regarding the st.

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