Main description:

An encompassing socio-historical survey of the political and sociological nature of groups, communities and societies.
A transdisciplinary study of crowds, masses and groups as historical, sociological, psychological and psychosocial phenomena.
A unique combination of sociology, psychoanalysis and group analysis in the study of social formations.
An inquiry into the enigma of crowds and mass psychology with the history of group analytic and group relations' advances in England, especially the study of large groups in the research on group processes.
A comprehensive presentation of the social unconscious theory in association with the study of large groups and the Incohesion theory as new group analytic tools for understanding contemporary crowds and masses.
In today's world, flooded by social conflicts and polarizations and the mass impact of social media, this book enables the reader to map out the field of the unconscious life of crowds illuminating the darkness of twenty-first century collective movements.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Series Foreword by Earl Hopper

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE

Nineteenth-century crowd psychology

CHAPTER TWO

Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology

CHAPTER THREE

Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology

CHAPTER FOUR

Reflections on a society of individuals

CHAPTER FIVE

The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England

CHAPTER SIX

Group relations and Bion's legacy

CHAPTER SEVEN

Towards new basic assumptions in groups

CHAPTER EIGHT

Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social unconscious

CHAPTER NINE

Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis

CHAPTER TEN

Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of social systems: Earl Hopper's theory of the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M

Epilogue

References

Index