Description
Part 1 Introduction: the logos of small-group participation -structural guidelines and organizational formats. Part 2 Foundations - history: sitting on Socrates walking groups; the invention of modern group treatment at the turn of the 20th century; the growth spurt of group psychotherapy - innovation prior to World War II. Part 3 Foundations - epistemology: a group is a group is a group? building a collective experience through inductive processes; the epistemology of the group-as-a-whole -relying on deduction to render the group intelligible; the art of depiction - finding meaning in the collective process. Part 4 Applications - psychoeducation: myth, metaphor and miracle in the moment of making - leadership and residence in unstructured process groups; managing group process in nonprocess groups -working with structures theme-centred tasks; group development -building protocols for psychoeducational groups. Part 5 Applications - psychotherapy: sphere of influence - holding together in remote groups; group analysis - a causal paradigm for working through impasse; the group as a cultural phenomenon -transforming experience through collective imagery. Part 6 Conclusion: the mythos of small-group culture - object relations and primitive processes; the evolution of the human collective - a myth for modern times.