What Is A Group?

This volume on groups emphasises the importance of a psychoanalytic analysis, as opposed to a behaviourist account. Work by Foulkes and Bion is reconsidered in the light of current clinical practice by Robin Cooper and Michael Halton, and the American scene is represented through an essay by Otto Kernberg, using Freud's work on group psychology. 1 Introduction 2 Freud on Groups 3 Foulkes and Group Analysis 4 Bion, Foulkes and the Oedipal Situation 5 Mass Psychology Through the Analytic Lens 6 The Social Unconscious in Clinical Work 7 The Dilemmas of Ignorance 8 Group Subversion as Subjective Necessity Towards a Lacanian Orientation to Psychoanalysis in Group Settings 9 Levinas and the Question of the Group