Table of Contents

The International Psychoanalysis Library -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- How the question of the group was posed in psychoanalysis -- The epistemological problem of the group in psychoanalysis -- The group as a psychoanalytic situation -- Clinical psychoanalytic work in the group situation -- The group as an intrapsychic formation: psychic groupality and internal groups -- Forms and processes of group psychic reality: the group psychic apparatus -- Associative processes in groups -- Phoric functions: speech-bearer, symptom-bearer, dream-bearer -- The common and shared dream space: dream polyphony -- Unconscious alliances -- The subject of the unconscious, the subject of linking -- Epilogue

About the Author

Rene Kaes

Reviews

"Group psychoanalysis (or group psychoanalytic psychotherapy) is a clinical practice that continues to be very active and plays an important role in the application of psychoanalysis, in the field of mental health and in the training of psychotherapists. Ren� Ka�s gives us a very complete overview of the history of this practice and of its recent advances. In this way, he allows us to benefit from his great competence in this area in which he has played a key role in France for more than forty years. From life-like clinical information he offers us a theoretical reflection, which also takes into account the tradition of which he has been one of the craftsmen."--Daniel Widl�cher