From the Couch To the Circle

From the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Progress is a handbook of group therapy and guide to the group-analytic model. It draws on John Schlapobersky's engagement as a practitioner and on peoples' experience in groups as they face psychotherapy's key challenges - understanding and change. The book's three sections include: Foundations - aimed at the general reader and practitioners using groups of any kind and working at every level, including those providing supportive psychotherapy and groups for psychosis, trauma, people at risk, the elderly and children The Group-Analytic Model - defines and describes the group-analytic model at a basic and advanced level The Dynamics of Change - aimed at group analysts, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists providing short-term psychotherapy and long-term group-analysis Schlapobersky studies the model across the field in key topics - composition, dynamic administration, process and outcome, illustrated with vignettes and commentary. Other principally psychodynamic models of group therapy - Tavistock, Interpersonal, Psychodynamic, Modern Analytic and Systemic - are brought into a comparative discussion with the Group-analytic one to create an integrated and coherent approach. The book extends theauthor's early study of the group's language to new, original accounts of discourse analysis, psychotherapy's three dimensions and a pentagon for analysing group development. Building on Foulkes and Anthony he offers a Rosetta stone to read the languagesof group analysis and psychoanalysis against one another in the study of transference and counter-transference that is both clinical and scholarly--