Group Psychotherapy and Political Reality : A Two-Way Mirror

by COHEN BERTRAM (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780823622283
• ISBN10: 0823622282
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc

Summary

This book was inspired by the realization that group psychotherapy and political reality make up a two-way mirror. Structures and developmental trajectories of Political entities and systems of governance are explored in light of the way in which interactive psychotherapy and other process groups organize themselves, develop as cultures, and function when working on or avoiding their primary tasks. The authors identify and extend group dynamic principles both to illuminate political settings through awareness of their process group elements and also to clarify and complement process group experience by taking into account the lessons of politics and history.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Process Groups and Their Roots in Holistic Group Theory	1	(22)
Rousseau's Social Contract and the Politics of the Group as a Whole	23	(18)
Group Development I: From Tribes to Nations and from Monarchy to Anarchy	41	(26)
Group Development II: From Fascism and Communism to Liberal and Social Democracy	67	(28)
Leadership I: Leader Functions and the Critical Role of Communication	95	(20)
Leadership II: Patterns of Authority and Power	115	(20)
Self Transformation I: The Structure and Mutability of Self	135	(24)
Self Transformation II: Resolving Impediments to Intersubjective Communication	159	(18)
Groups Within Groups I: Subgrouping Dynamics in Large and Small Social Systems	177	(22)
Groups Within Groups II: Subgrouping in the Therapy and Training Group and Beyond	199	(18)
New Groups for Old I: Groups to Resolve Conflicts Between Groups	217	(16)
New Groups for Old II: Working Through Chronic Adversarial Belief Systems	233	(28)
References	261	(16)
Name Index	277	(6)
Subject Index	283