Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations
Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Reihe: The New International Library of Group Analysis
ISBN: 978-0-367-02449-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations, ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology, including the developments in critical theory, to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups.
Carla Penna presents a unique combination of sociology, psychoanalysis, and group analysis in the study of social formations. This book revisits the epistemological basis of group analysis by introducing and discussing its historical path, especially in connection with the study of large groups and investigations of the social unconscious in persons, groups, and societies. It also explores early work on group relations and contemporary research on the basic-assumption group in England, particularly Hopper’s theory of Incohesion as a fourth basic assumption. From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups enables the reader to map out the field of the unconscious life of crowds illuminating the darkness of twenty-first century collective movements.
The reflections in this book present new perspectives for psychologists, psychoanalysts, group analysts, sociologists, and historians to investigate the psychodynamics of contemporary crowds, masses, and social systems.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Professional
Autoren/Hrsg.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
Series Foreword by Earl Hopper
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Nineteenth-century crowd psychology
CHAPTER TWO
Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology
CHAPTER THREE
Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology
CHAPTER FOUR
Reflections on a society of individuals
CHAPTER FIVE
The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England
CHAPTER SIX
Group relations and Bion’s legacy
CHAPTER SEVEN
Towards new basic assumptions in groups
CHAPTER EIGHT
Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social unconscious
CHAPTER NINE
Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis
CHAPTER TEN
Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of social systems: Earl Hopper’s theory of the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
Epilogue
References
Index
