Main description:

A study of the larger group, focusing on the processes and dynamics whereby the group micro-culture emerges. As the initial frustrations of the group find expression in hate, this is transformed through dialogue to what the Greeks knew as 'koinonia', or the state of impersonal fellowship. Essentially, Koinonia concerns itself with an opera

Contents:

Foreword -- Koinonia -- Introduction -- The story of the larger group approach -- The median group -- Dialogue -- Culture and Koinonia -- Object relations theory. Systems thinking and structuralism -- Ecological perspectives -- Postscript -- Spiral course of introjected, projected, reintrojected, and reprojected objects via the larger group matrix -- The psychoanalytic, the small-group, and the large-group settings -- The Three Cultures -- The Large Group Section -- The large group diary: Records of large group meetings