The Groups Book: Psychoanalytic Group Therapy : Principles and Practice

Caroline Garland

Karnac, Jan 1, 2010 - Psychology - 411 pages

Including The Groups Manual, A Treatment Manual, with Clinical Vignettes.'This book is very important both for psychoanalysis and for social science. Psychoanalysis began with the treatment of individuals and in its early days attended to the conflict between the individuals wishes and society. It was not for some time that it fully addressed the fact that the ostensible individual was a social animal, who was never outside his group even when ostensibly alone. In this book what has been learnt from the study in depth of individual psychopathology is brought to bear on what can be learnt from studying people in groups and vice versa. This integration is a challenge to both, and is perhaps the most relevant in contemporary psychoanalysis.'- Dr Ron Britton, Psychoanalyst, former President of the British Psychoanalytical Society

About the author

Caroline Garland is a Psycho-analyst, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has taught psychoanalytic group therapy in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic for 25 years. Her background included three years' study of social development in chimpanzees as well as observation of the behaviour of new-born infants at the Behaviour Development Research Unit of St. Mary's Hospital. She taught group psychotherapy at the Maudsley Hospital from 1983 - 1997. In 1987 she founded the Tavistock's Trauma Unit, and has written and published widely on the subject of trauma in adults. Currently she is engaged in the long-term Tavistock Outcome Study of treatment-resistant depression.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Groups Book: Psychoanalytic Group Therapy : Principles and Practice; Tavistock Clinic series
• Editor: Caroline Garland
• Publisher: Karnac, 2010
• ISBN: 1855758504, 9781855758506
• Length: 411 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Movements / Psychoanalysis; Psychology / Psychotherapy / Group