Main description:

At the time group analysis was emerging in the United Kingdom through the ideas of S. H. Foulkes, one of his followers, Eduardo Luis Cortesao, returned to Portugal and founded the Portuguese Society of Groupanalysis, with the first group-analytic Symposium taking place in Estoril, Portugal, in 1970. In this vital new book, an impressive collection of contributors demonstrate how group analysis in Portugal has always embraced the relational paradigm that has become central to contemporary psychoanalysis.

The Portuguese school of groupanalysis, through several of its senior members, has contributed to many of the organizations responsible for the development of group analysis, such as EGATIN, IAGP and GASi. Nevertheless some of the concepts and variations of the Portuguese school of groupanalysis tend to be unknown to the English speaker. Their focus is on the "pattern", allowing transformation of each patient's personal matrix, working through primitive relational failures and paving the way to new beginnings, always in a transgenerational group context.

This book will be of tremendous importance to psychotherapists working in group analysis around the world.

Contents:

Introduction

Isaura Manso Neto and Margarida Franca

Chapter 1

History of group psychotherapy, group analysis and the contributions of the Portuguese school of groupanalysis

Antonio Guilherme Ferreira

Chapter 2

Group analysis: A cluster identity. Redefining/rethinking Group Analysis

Isaura Manso Neto and Maria Joao Centeno

Chapter 3

The Portuguese school of groupanalysis: The integration of psychoanalytic concepts in groupanalysis

Sara Ferro and Margarida Franca

Chapter 4

The concepts of group-analytic matrix and personal group matrix

Paulo Motta Marques and Joao Carlos Melo

Chapter 5

The pattern

Isaura Manso Neto and Cesar Vieira Dinis

Chapter 6

Foulkes, Cortesao, and beyond. Other specific concepts of the Portuguese school of groupanalysis

Joao Carlos Melo and Paulo Motta Marques

Chapter 7

Transference and countertransference in the Portuguese school of groupanalysis

Cesar Vieira Dinis and Jose de Abreu-Afonso

Chapter 8

Group analysis and group-analytic psychotherapy as favoured settings to deal with conflicts and difficult feelings

Isaura Manso Neto and Ana Bivar

Chapter 9

The groupanalyst as a patient and related training issues

Margarida Franca and Isaura Manso Neto