Developing Nuclear Ideas : Relational Group Psychotherapy.

Billow, Richard M.

Developing Nuclear Ideas : Relational Group Psychotherapy. - London : Karnac Books, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (289 pages) - The New International Library of Group Analysis .

Includes bibliographies and index.

COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; NEW INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF GROUP ANALYSIS FOREWORD; Introduction: relational group psychotherapy and the nuclear idea; PART I THE NUCLEAR IDEA: CONCEPT AND TECHNIQUE; CHAPTER ONE Developing nuclear ideas; CHAPTER TWO The four dimensions of a nuclear idea (experiential, affective, symbolic, and metapsychological): on scrutiny; CHAPTER THREE Grounding the nuclear idea: sense and clinical sensibility; CHAPTER FOUR Processing nuclear ideas via four communicative modes: on hostage taking; CHAPTER FIVE When the group refuses a nuclear idea: on Facebook. PART II THE INFLUENCE OF POLEMIC IDEASCHAPTER SIX Bipolar thinking leads to polemic ideas; CHAPTER SEVEN Inveiglement; PART III ITS ALL ABOUT "ME"; CHAPTER EIGHT The therapist's psychology as nuclear idea; CHAPTER NINE The group beholds its leader; CHAPTER TEN The invited presenter: outrage and outrageousness; CHAPTER ELEVEN The group therapist is "that guy": organising speech; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX.

Building and expanding on concepts presented in his previous volumes (Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, and Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3Rs), Richard M. Billow presents a coherent and innovative model of group psychotherapy. Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy offers, in experiential terms and with vivid examples, a theoretical and technical approach to understand and organise dynamic group process and drive it towards satisfying the goal of all therapy, the hunger for emotional truth. By developing nuclear ideas, the t.



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Group psychotherapy--Methodology.
Group psychotherapy.
Social groups.
Medical personnel and patient.
Psychotherapy, Group
Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic
Group Processes
Professional-Patient Relations


Electronic Books.

RC488 / .D484 2015