The World within the Group: Developing Theory for Group Analysis (The New International Library of Group Analysis)

✍ Scribed by Martin Weegmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The World within the Group is an original and ambitious endeavour to connect group analysis to philosophy, history, and modern social theory. The book argues that group analysis needs theoretical renewal to remain relevant, and that philosophy is a valuable resource for such thinking. In particular, the work of three philosophers is examined: Nietzsche, Dewey, and Gadamer, each being associated with "pragmatic-perspective" inquiry. The author demonstrates that group analysis is compatible with such inquiry, and that we understand and intervene from within the horizon of specific traditions of training and theory. Group analysis typifies an unremitting relational stance, valuing openness of dialogue, and moving in and out of the perspectival worlds of the participants. The book also offers a re-formulation of the concept of social unconscious, seen as a discursive world of production and articulation. Drawing on contemporary social theories, it chimes with the spirit of Elias's historical approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Working intersubjectively: theory and therapy
CHAPTER TWO
Personal horizons, unformulated experience, and group analysis
CHAPTER THREE
Perspectivism, pragmatism, group analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
The articulated space of social unconsciousness
CHAPTER FIVE
Reforming subjectivity: personal, familial, and group
implications of English reformation
CHAPTER SIX
An exclusionary matrix: degenerates, addicts, homosexuals
CHAPTER SEVEN
A modern monster? The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
CHAPTER EIGHT
“And thereby hangs a tale”: narrative dimensions of human life
CHAPTER NINE
Group analysis in contemporary society
POSTSCRIPT
GLOSSARY
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX