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Self Experiences in Group

Intersubjective and Self Psychological Pathways to Human Understanding
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Spatial ideas are all-pervasive: they underlie verbal reasoning and are fundamental to the way we think, feel and behave. This study focuses on the physical expression of the internal processes and its application to psychotherapy, with particular reference to the work of child psychotherapist Margaret Lowenfeld. The author argues that how we perceive the external world and our place in it reflects our inner emotional landscape, and that our early strategies for resisting gravity to attain the upright position are transferred to our concepts of self-worth, power and independence. She uses case material to reinforce her proposition that physical and psychological ideas which develop during childhood are intimately related, and that in order to help distressed children, we must gain a fuller understanding of this relationship.
Gravity and the upright position; James - a case study; the development of wholeness; Jackie - a case study; difficulties over autonomy and a sense of direction; energy, power and access to resources; the internal world in relation to the external world; a Piaget type test of object constancy.
The first collection of papers dedicated to linking the ideas of self psychology with the practice of group psychotherapy... a very good introduction to this topic. It covers an interesting range of topics: Kohut's own views, intersubjectivity, group self, infant research, the notion of cure, the relationship between self psychology and group analysis, among others. Newcomers to the field of groups will find good starting points (especially in the chapter by Pines), while experienced practitioners will find much to be stimulated by in the rest... Those of you with an interest in group psychotherapy should familiarise yourselves with its content.
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