Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle

Foulkes Revisited from a Group Attachment and Developmental Perspective

Arturo Ezquerro, María Cañete

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000829013
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Psychologie
• Sous-sujet: Psychotherapie

Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete present a captivating journey through human development, group lives and group attachment from infancy all the way into old age. Co-constructed with meticulous anthropological, psychosocial, cultural and clinical research, as well as true, stirring stories and insights which contain a rare blend of common sense and inspiration, this book offers an exciting new outlook on attachment and group analysis.

Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle first assesses psychosocial, peer group and other group developmental studies, within a broad evolutionary and cultural context, looking into changes and constancies, continuities and discontinuities, as well as overlaps that occur throughout each developmental stage. It then presents a thorough review of psychoanalytic, group-analytic and wider group literature. The book concludes with a consideration of qualitative group-analytic research which examines clinical group phenomena that can be present in all age groups, as well as distinct phase-specific characteristics and developmental tasks, as they find expression in the therapeutic process.

Presented with frankness, self-reflective thinking and compassion, Group Analysis throughout the Life Cycle will be essential reading for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, group analysts, psychiatrists and other professionals in practice and in training. It will also appeal to healthcare professionals interested in human development and attachment theory.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Preliminary Pages: Endorsements
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Developmental group analysis comes of age
• 2 Early psychosocial development: Can children benefit from group-analytic therapy?
• 3 The power and therapeutic potential of the adolescent peer group
• 4 Young adults’ group lives: An increasingly long-winded road to adulthood?
• 5 Adult life in its prime: Integrating differences and complex group configurations
• 6 Late-middle age: Searching for a new group identity?
• 7 Group analysis with older adults: Can creativity survive when time is running out?
• Epilogue
• Index