S.H. Foulkes was the founder of the group analytic school of group psychotherapy. This volume represents an introduction both to his work, and to the developments based on it. Amongst the subjects covered are the nature of the therapeutic process in the light of recent research in child development, the relationship of group analysis to psychoanalysis and the school of Lacan, and research into the results of group therapy. Included are the first three annual S.H. Foulkes lectures which explore his life, the historical significance of his work, and his advances in psychoanalysis, particularly in the realm of narcissism. Other papers explore the influence of Foulkes's ideas in Europe, showing how the systems of Jung and Freud can be integrated with group analysis. The book includes a clear and illuminating exposition of Foulkes's theories by Malcolm Pines.
The application of some principles of group analytic psychotherapy to higher education, M.L.J. Abercrombie, former President of Group Analytic Society, London; some complementary functions of group-analytic psychotherapy and individual psychoanalysis, Wilfred Abse, University of Virginia; the group-analytic circle and its ambient network, E. James Anthony, founder member of Group Analytic Society, London; out-patient analytic group psychotherapy, Barbara Dick; some contributions of general systems theory to psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, Helen E. Durkin, Post Graduate Centre for Mental Health, New York; adolescent group theory and adult groups, John Evans, Royal Edinburgh Hospital; analytical psychology and group-analytic psychotherapy: convergences, Romano Fiumara, University of Rome; group-analytic therapy of university chaplains, David R. Hawkins, University of Chicago; the effect of numbers on the basic transference pattern in group-analysis, H.J. Home, founder member of Institute of Group Analysis; meaning and information in the group process, Ernest H. Hutten, University of London; group analytic psychotherapy according to Foulkes and psychoanalysis according to Lacan, Michel Laxenaire, Universite de Nancy; why group analysis works, M. Rita and M. Leal, University of Lisbon; the concept of the therapeutic community, Tom Main, former President of Institute of Psychosexual Medicine; Michael Foulkes and the Northfield experiment, Patrick de Mar, former President of Group Analytic Society, London; historical perspectives of group analysis, Helle Munro, University of Copenhagen; the contribution of S.H. Foulkes to group therapy, Malcolm Pines, founder member of Institute of Group Analysis; affective warp and metascience, Juan Rof-Carballo, founder of Institute of Psychosomatic Medicine, Madrid; philosophers, ideologies and outcomes in group psychotherapy, Max Rosenbaum, Adelphi University, USA; individual and group psychology - are they opposed? Saul Scheidlinger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York; group analysis and family therapy, A.C. Robin Skynner, former Chairman of Institute of Family Therapy; the group process in Chekhov's plays, Sheila Thompson, former Principal Mental Health Social Worker, London; on the Diogenes search - Anthropos and his suprasystems, George A. Vassiliou, Director of the Athenian Institute of Anthropos.
