Ring of Fire : Primitive Affects and Object Relations in Group Psychotherapy (Paperback)

1 An editorial introduction: Silence=death 2 Between theory and practice, light and heat: On the use of theory in the ‘Ring of Fire’3 The phases of group development and the systems-centred group 4 Attacks on the reflective space: Containing primitive emotional states 5 Bion’s post-Experiences in Groups thinking on groups: A clinical example of -K 6 Borderline phenomena in analytic groups 7 Group thanatropics 8 Therapeutic responses to the expression of aggression by members in groups 9 Utilizing co-therapy in the group treatment of borderline and narcissistic patients 10 Intensive group and social systems treatment of psychotic and borderline patients 11 Glacial times in psychotic regression