The Individual and the Group, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982 Boundaries and Interrelations Volume 1: Theory

Malcolm Pines and Lise Rafaelsen The Seventh International Congress of Group Psychotherapy organized in Copenhagen by the International Association of Group Psychotherapy was one of the largest and most representative congresses on this subject that has yet been held. Probably for the first time we achieved the declared aim of the International Association: that of bringing together representatives of the different approaches to group psychotherapy in the same forum to allow for communication, exchange, and development of our relation­ ships. Previous congresses have been less representative and it seems to augur well for the future of the Association and of it's congresses that there was this strong force and wish for unification and for exchange within the field of group psychotherapy. The Congress theme, "The Individual and the Group: Boundaries and Interrelations in Theory and Practice" was chosen because it gave an opportunity once again to examine the very basis for group psycho­ therapy as theory and as practice. The basic theme, stated in the opening papers by Professor Marie Jahoda and Professor James Anthony, was replayed daily with new developments and variations according to the theoretical position of each subsequent speaker.

I - Basic Issues.- Individual and Group.- Discussion of “Individual and Group” by Marie Jahoda.- A Comment on Prof. M. Jahoda’s “Individual and Group”.- The Individual and the Group as Seen by the Therapist.- Beyond the Individual. The Relationships between Group and Subjectivity in a Group Analytic Perspective.- Group Anaclisis of Individual Mental Structures: A Few Theoretical Consequences. Consequences concerning the Individual and the Group.- Group Society as a Psychotherapy Concept.- II - The Family as Matrix of the Individual.- The Healthy and the Unhealthy Family: Research in Family Interaction.- The Family as the Matrix of the Individual: Group Process in Child Development.- Correspondence between the Psychodramatic Theory of Child Development and the Processes and Therapeutic Goals of Psychodrama.- The Application of Family Studies to Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy.- Foulkes’ Network Theory and the Scope of Group Analysis in Family Therapy.- Group and Family Therapies: Distinctions.- Family Patterns in Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy.- Outlining a Systemic - Dialectic Approach to Family Functioning and Malfunctioning.- Systems Concepts in Group and Family Therapy.- III - Boundary Issues.- A - The Individual in the Group.- The Person as Expression of the Group.- Role as a Bridge Construct in Understanding The Relationship between the Individual and the Group.- Interactive Concepts in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology: Their Relevance to the Individual/Group Linkage.- Group and Individual Boundaries in Group Psychotherapy: Theoretical and Technical Considerations.- Psychosociological Compromise Formation as the Changeover point between Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Relationships.- B - Ecology, Ethology and System Therapy.- TheImplications of Ecological Change on Groups, Institutions and Communities - Reviewing a Therapeutic Community Experience with Open-System Thinking.- Biological Systems Analysis of Mentality.- Boundaries and Boundarying: A Systems Perspective.- IV.- A - The Definitions of Boundaries.- Group Dynamics: A Modern Redefinition of their Therapeutic Significance as Boundary Processes.- Personal Boundary Management and Social Structure.- Do Boundaries Exist? A Transpersonal Approach to Psychotherapy.- Architectural Boundaries - and their Impact on Social Organisation.- B - Research Models.- A Nuclear Conflict and Group Focal Conflict Model for Integrating Individual and Group Level Phenomena in Psychotherapy Groups.- Individual Behavior, Group and Organizational Processes: An Application of a Preliminary Model.- Group Personality and Group Behavior: An Expansion of Bion’s Model.- C - Large Groups and Organisations.- Large Group Perspectives.- Psychodrama as Technique of the Psychoanalysis of Institutions.- Archaic Processes in Organizations: Fluid Boundaries between Individual and Groups.- Psychic and Political Constraints on the Growth of Industrial Democracies.- Pathogenic Leadership in Organizations.- Community Mental Health and Psychiatry The Italian Experience.- Christiania - Therapeutic Community, Active Tolerance or Social Apathy?.- Solidarity as a Problem in Society and Therapy.- The Individual in the Social Network.- V - Clinical Perspectives.- Individual and Group: A Latin American Perspective.- Interpreting Analytical Group Psychotherapy, more specifically The Individual Interpretation and the Group Interpretation.- Unconscious Planning by Patients for Group Therapy.- Failures in Group Therapy and the Potential for Growth through the Study of Such Factors.- VI -Therapeutic Community Perspectives and Practice.- Therapeutic Communities Past, Present and Future.- Therapeutic Community and Social Exchange Theory.- Advantages and Liabilities of the Therapeutic Community.- The Therapeutic Community in Norwegian Psychiatry.- Reconsidering some Limiting Factors of Therapeutic Communities. A Summary of Six Norwegian Studies.- The Psychoanalytic Oriented Approach to Therapeutic Community Treatment in the Netherlands.- Recurring Crisis in Therapeutic Communities.- Changing Leadership in Developing a Therapeutic Community.- VII - Basic Issues: Psychoanalysis and Group Psychothera.- Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Understanding of Group Process.- Differences and Inter-Relations between Psycho and Group Analysis.- Considerations Regarding the State of Theory in Group Analysis.- Transference and Counter-Transference in Group Psychoanalysis.- Transitional Phenomena and the Matrix in Group Psychotherapy.