Main description:

The contributions cover key areas of discussion including the political and the social, diversity and difference, gender and norm, and isolation and the social sphere.
Includes several chapters on post-pandemic contexts, e.g. internet work and social isolation.
Includes examples from the authors' own work, for example case studies of group analysis in specific contexts.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

About the Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction What do we call what we do?

Amelie Noack, David Vincent

Part 1 Groups and group therapy

Chapter 1 Why groups are important and what they do

Amelie Noack

Chapter 2 History and Development of Group Analysis

David Vincent

Chapter 3 The Group Analytic Network London

Sue Einhorn, Amelie Noack

Part 2 The political and the social

Chapter 4 The Political and the Personal

Diane Rogan-Sofer

Chapter 5 In the Realm of the Political

Eugene Clerkin

Chapter 6 The Strange Phenomenon of being a Group Analyst

Sue Einhorn

Part 3 Diversity and difference

Chapter 7 A Turkish Speaking Women's Group and the Cultural Considerations in everyday Group Analysis

Seda Sengun

Chapter 8 Finding Words for It - The Birth of Group Analytic Training in Rwanda

Justin Phipps

Chapter 9 The Dynamics of the Social Unconscious at Work in the Therapy Group

Sylvia Hutchison

Chapter 10 Who helps whom? A Group Analytic Approach to Working with Mothers and Babies in an NHS Perinatal Mental Health Service

Sheila Ritchie

Part 4 Gender and norms

Chapter 11 The Matrix as Container and Crucible

Amelie Noack

Chapter 12 The Father in the Group

David Vincent

Chapter 13 The Patrix - A new Concept for Group Analysis

Amelie Noack

Chapter 14 Normative Authority

Sarah Tucker

Part 5 Isolation and the social sphere

Chapter 15 Internet and Group Analysis

Neil Telfer

Chapter 16 Psychic and Social Isolation

Sylvia Hutchinson

Chapter 17 Teaching and Learning in Small Groups: Maximising learning and minimising anxiety in an Experiential Group

Sandra Evans

Chapter 18 Belonging: Inclusion and Exclusion - Who has the Power

Sue Einhorn

References

Index