Traumatic Experience in the Unconscious Life of Groups

The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M

Earl Hopper
Foreword by Malcolm Pines

Number 23 in the International Library of Group Analysis series

Paperback: £29.99 / $49.95

2003, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-087-4, BIC 2: JMAF JMH MMJT

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Foreword, Malcolm Pines, Institute of Group Analysis, London. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Theory of Cohesion Proposed by Bion and Turquet, and Modified by Others. 2. The Fear of Annihilation and Traumatic Experience. 3. The Fourth Basic Assumption: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I:A/M. 4. The Personification of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification. 5. The Treatment of Difficult Patients in Clinical Group Analysis: The Personification of Aggregation by Pandoro. 6. The Personification of Massification by Pandora. 7. An Illustration of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification in the Extreme: A Group of Child Survivors of the Shoah. 8. Summary, Invited Critical Commentaries, Discussion and Suggestions for Further Research and Applications: Richard M. Billow, Howard Kibel, Malcolm Pines, Bennett Roth, Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff, Victor L. Schermer, Walter Stone. Appendix I: Some Conceptual Distinctions about Social Formations from Sociology and Social Psychology. Appendix II: Encapsulation as a Defence against the Fear of Annihilation. References. Subject Index. Author Index.

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• Earl Hopper

Subject areas

• Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Keywords

• group psychotherapy,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychotherapy

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