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The World within the group

NEW INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF GROUP ANALYSIS FOREWORD PREFACE ONE. Working intersubjectively: theory and therapy Classical theory The archaeology metaphor The resisting patient The surgical metaphor On history and the psychoanalytic movement Summary Therapy implications A changing view of interpretation From analyst to conductor The transference: an intersubjectivist view The irreducible subjectivity of the therapist Metaphors for unconscious life: house, home, traffic Conclusion TWO. Personal horizons, unformulated experience, and group analysis The concept of horizon The horizontal in group analysis Vignette one Sheila and Andrea: organising world views?Theoretical reflections Andrea: not enough light Sheila: being a nonentity in a world of people The therapist's horizons "You're not finished yet": the role of unformulated experience Moving horizons: therapeutic change Vignette two Vignette three Circles of the unsaid Conclusion THREE. Perspectivism, pragmatism, group analysis Nietzsche's perspectivism The marketplace of meaning Life as literature: human beings as creative Dewey's pragmatism Principled, reflective inquiry Philosophy as equipment for living Perpsectivism and pragmatism Perspectivism and pragmatism in therapeutic work Vignette: a team in trouble?Discussion Vignette: a therapy group Discussion Group analysis: a multi-lateral reality FOUR. The articulated space of social unconsciousness Social unconscious as imaginary Between abjection and ideals Flesh, sex, and gender in early modern times— examples from history Dangerous bodies, lustful women, witches Dutiful wives, ordained roles Conclusion FIVE. Reforming subjectivity: personal, familial, and group implications of English reformation The Protestantisation of the social Dialogue of difference between son and mother Family life during troubled times Group change within a town: from Dorchester to Heaven Samuel Ward: Puritan diarist Conclusion SIX. An exclusionary matrix: degenerates, addicts, homosexuals An exclusionary matrix Degenerates and dangerous classes Alcoholics and addicts Homosexuals Conclusion SEVEN. A modern monster? The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Monstrosity: "to think of this creature ..."Sexualities Mentalities Chemical uses Conclusion EIGHT. "And thereby hangs a tale": narrative dimensions of human life A tale of minor heroism What is good narrative?Disordered narrative Never on your own: parable of the "first word"Conclusion: bringing the narrative to the group analytic NINE. Group analysis in contemporary society Group analysis—democracy in practice?Prakesh and Andrea: group life Reflections Therapy for the life-cycle: an older adult Grace's life Reflections The articulation of identity politics: "carers"The relatives group Reflections Group analysis: values with which to explore values?Clinical reflections: a synthesis Reflections Aporias of group analysis Conclusion POSTSCRIPT GLOSSARY

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