This volume is a thorough introduction to operative groups. It starts by guiding the reader through the ideas of Pichon-Riviere, who conceived operative groups as a whole way of thinking and acting in groups, and then shows how the two schools of group analysis - the British and the Latin-American - coincide and inter-relate, shedding light on the theory behind both and including useful case material of various kinds of groups to illustrate such theory.
Author(s): Juan Tubert-Oklander, Reyna Hernandez De Tubert
Series: International Library of Group Analysis, 24
Edition: 1
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 256
Operative Groups: The Latin-American Approach to Group Analysis......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 13
Group analysis and operative groups......Page 17
Enrique Pichon-Rivière: pioneer and outcast......Page 27
An attempted definition......Page 39
The task......Page 41
Operations research, decision making and strategic planning......Page 44
The Conceptual Referential Operative Schema (CROS)......Page 49
The individual and the group......Page 54
The group process......Page 58
A new profession......Page 61
On the existence of groups......Page 63
The individual and the group......Page 68
A revision of the concept of CROS......Page 76
The problem of context......Page 84
The social and institutional dimension......Page 87
Communication, thinking, learning and change......Page 90
Summing up......Page 101
Introduction......Page 103
The transversal description of sessions......Page 107
The longitudinal description of the group process......Page 116
On workshops and laboratories......Page 133
Conclusions......Page 141
The transmission of the analytic experience......Page 143
On group supervision......Page 148
A clinical example from a supervisory group......Page 156
An experience in the training of group-analytic family therapists......Page 168
The individual, the group and the community......Page 187
Working with nurses in a public institution......Page 193
A reflection group in a therapeutic community......Page 199
The case of the multifamily group......Page 210
The use of operative groups in social research......Page 217
7 A Re-evaluation of Operative Groups and Group Analysis......Page 229
Notes......Page 233
References......Page 239
Subject Index......Page 257
Author Index......Page 269
