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out among the other group members. A simple testimonial cannot do justice to this
monumental effort that is destined to become a classic in the field.
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Distinguished Life Fellow, American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Author, Difficult Topics in Group Psychotherapy
This unique publication offers the next fine turning point in group education and
practice. It covers the wide range of methodology and the complexity of group
experience moving from one stage of disciplined work to the next buoyed with
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ingredients of group: process, theory and practice and will delight Modern Ana-
lysts encouraging both new entrants and the most experienced practitioners. Sta-
tistics, theory and typology are used with wit and daring as John takes us from the
most personal narratives in case studies to varied interpretations of theory offering
vivid contrasts between schools of analytic investigation. Few books can achieve
the dynamic pace and thrilling results that he uses to carry the reader from one
chapter to another.
Phyllis F. Cohen, PhD; FAGPA; National Chair,
Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health;
Former Chair Center for Group Studies, New York;
American Board for Accreditation in Psychoanalysis;
Former Chair, Center for Group Studies
John has amassed a rich harvest in the skills by which he applies group analytic
theory and technique – a narrative art. Science is in the tabulations, careful catego-
rization of diagnoses, treatment results, and illuminating figures. This book will
interest and inform readers seeking an introduction and mature practitioners who
want to revise their own experience and ideas. Rarely do we read a single author text
written with the authority that derives from such rich experience as a practitioner
and teacher who enjoys and is able to utilize the work of his students. The writing
of former patients gives the final stamp of authority to his work in ‘The last word’.
Malcolm Pines, MRCPsych., Founder, Institute of Group
Analysis London, Formerly Consultant Psychotherapist,
Maudsley Hospital, St. George’s Hospital,
Tavistock Clinic. Author, Circular Reflections
Everyone working with groups will benefit from this book from whichever
‘school’ they come and at whatever level of experience. It is a mine of informa-
tion about group analytic ideas and how to use them presented accessibly and
with an appreciation of their complexity. Theoretical material is compelling and
enlightening. The massive strength of the book is the case material that drives it
with engaging and often moving examples and incisive, consistently instructive
commentaries. John shows acute clinical sensitivity and virtues as a teacher,
deploying the concepts to make sense of clinical material . . . and using clini-
cal material recursively to flesh out the theoretical concepts . . . a terrific way
to work.
Prof Stephen Frosh PhD, Professor of Psychosocial Studies,
Birkbeck, University of London. Author,
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions
John’s masterful exposition of Foulksian group analysis and other models gives
us their underlying theories, principles and clinical applications in a jargon-free,
beautiful language. There shines through the man the writer is: intellectually
inquisitive, emotionally engaged and deeply humane in his contact with and care
for his patients. This spirit exemplifies a passage by Foulkes quoting a patient
saying, ‘What is essential is not what you do but who you are.’ The book extends
this spirit for experienced and new practitioners and for students who will find it
especially useful. It is relevant and accessible to a wide audience of professionals
including teachers, social workers, administrators and – dare one hope – politi-
cians. Their reactions would be as welcome as those of John’s former patients in
‘The last word’.
Liesel Hearst, Training Analyst, Institute of Group Analysis, London;
Supervisor and Founding Trainer, Institutes of Group Analysis,
Denmark, Norway, GRAS Germany and ZGAZS Switzerland.
Co-author, Group-Analytic Psychotherapy: A Meeting of Minds
This book provides ‘the state of the art’ in group-analytic practice and think-
ing. A most experienced clinician shares his curative approach and interventions
through a wide range of clinical examples in different, touching group experi-
ences. It is a joy to learn from this master teacher – he is both a model for group
therapists and a theoretical innovator. John’s interest in new formulations, new
approaches and a humane way of relating to patients will help the reader grow.
Students as well as experienced practitioners will find the text, the broad field it
covers and the depth of its studies applicable to many of their own challenges in
group therapy.
Robi Friedman PhD., President,
International Group Analytic Society;
Former Chair, Israeli Institute of Group Analysis.
Co-author, Dreams in Group Psychotherapy
British group analysts have been waiting for a major contemporary textbook on
group-analytic psychotherapy for many years and John Schlapobersky has writ-
ten such a book. The term ‘magnum opus’ is highly appropriate for a work that
is both theoretically robust and clinically rich. It will be of particular interest
to those who work as therapists with victims and perpetrators of violence and
I predict that it will become a book that no practicing group therapist will want
to be without.
Gwen Adshead, MB ChB; FRCPsych. Group Analyst;
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Ravenswood House.
Co-author, A Matter of Security – Attachment Theory,
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
This book sets new standards for the whole group-analytic community and
anyone interested in the tradition founded by Foulkes. It integrates practi-
cal relevance and scholarship in a carefully elaborated presentation. John
Schlapobersky is a staunch ‘Foulkesian’, fully aware of inconsistencies and
gaps in Foulkes’s original texts, one of which is the key concept of communi-
cation. He breaks new ground here with chapters on the speech forms of the
group-analytic process; silence in groups; and metaphors for a ‘language of
change’. Readers in the German-speaking world will find especially informa-
tive how he documents the origins of group analysis in the German intellec-
tual tradition to 1933; then locates its development in the context of British
psychoanalytic discourse; and then connects it with the development of group
psychotherapy in the USA.
Thomas Mies PhD., Training Analyst, Institute of Group Analysis,
Munster, Germany; Editorial Board,
Gruppenpsychotherapie und Gruppendynamik
Group analysis has been waiting for a book that integrates the many diverse
strands of the theory into a meaningful whole. From the Couch to the Circle is an
important step in this direction. Ambitious and scholarly, the book draws on litera-
ture and research from the UK, USA and beyond to build a rich and nuanced con-
struction of what group analysis is. This dense tapestry is animated throughout by
vivid examples in vignettes and commentary that reflect the author’s unwavering
commitment to group analysis and his considerable experience and wisdom, his
passion and compassion. Beginners in the field, seasoned practitioners and curi-
ous non-professionals will gain both essential data and rare insights into a field
that holds hope for the future of accessible and equitable mental health practice.
Morris Nitsun, PhD, Consultant NHS Psychologist
in Group Psychotherapy; Training Group Analyst,
Institute of Group Analysis London and Fitzrovia
Group Analytic Practice. Author, The Anti-Group
In this substantial work John Schlapobersky turns his thoughtful and meticulous
attention to embodying comprehensively the corpus of group-analytic litera-
ture. This will become a standard work for consultation as much as for reading,
for study as for inspiration. It establishes group analysis as a seriously thought
through approach to the practice of psychotherapy in groups. More than that,
Foulkes and his early colleagues are properly acknowledged to have originated in
and extended the theory and practice of psychoanalysis itself. The psychoanalytic
couch and the circle of the group are close cousins. There is a special tension
between them that arises out of their mutual dependence and rivalry that John
shows has been turned to creative advantage by the long tradition of academic and
institutional work. This book leads the beginner towards becoming a sophisticated
practitioner and the experienced group analyst towards renewing his acquaintance
with his own origins.
Bob Hinshelwood, Psychoanalyst, British Psychoanalytic Society.
Author, What Happens In Groups, and Research On The Couch
Much of this book is teachable and would be a great introduction for American
readers unfamiliar with group analysis. Theory alone is not enough; something
has to catch fire. What is not teachable is exemplified in John’s vivid clinical
narratives of how and why people who struggle, succeed, and sometimes fail, in
group therapy. He describes Foulkes, founder of group analysis, as a towering
figure who attracted and led through great personal creativity and charm, with a
gift for bringing ideas to life in the room. John supplies the equivalent Foulkesian
life force in his deeply poetic clinical thinking and writing.
Dominick Grundy PhD, Editor,
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy
‘To make soup the cook doesn’t need to get into the pot.’ (Gorky quoted Schla
pobersky, characteristically illustrating the role of the group conductor). This
book is the most glorious potpourri of everything one wants to know and feel and
experience about group therapy, group analysis, and group dynamics – and more.
It magically combines, theory, science, clinical illustration, personal revelation,
anecdote, apposite quotation, allusions from the literary canon, and social and
cultural wisdom. Schlapobersky and his book – the literary analogue of a group at
its best – are worthy successors to his predecessor giants: Foulkes and Anthony,
Yalom, Skynner, Pines. Read him: for instruction, for joy, to live and laugh more
fully, more contentedly, more dangerously – and become a better, braver, more
compassionate, more confident yet questioning therapist whilst doing so.
Prof Jeremy Holmes MD FRCPsych, University of Exeter,
UK. Author, Explorations In Security
Foulkes would have been as delighted with this new book as I am.
E.J. Anthony MD, FRCPsych., Co-Author,
Group Psychotherapy: The Psychoanalytic Approach
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From the Couch
to the Circle
Group-Analytic Psychotherapy
in Practice
John R. Schlapobersky
First published 2016
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to the memories of James Anthony, Helen Bamber and
Bryan Boswood, who passed away whilst it was being written. They were
inspiring colleagues and mentors who became dear friends.
It is dedicated to three groups of living people. First it is dedicated to the next
generation of my own family: my daughter Hannah; grandchildren Maia and
Leo; stepson Josh; nieces Kate and Diana, Alice and Jane; nephew Simon; and
stepnephews James and Andrew; to their children and children to come. May the
work described here help to make the world a better place for all our children.
It is dedicated to those I have known in teaching relationships, including
students and supervisees in training programmes and institutions in different
countries. The Training Convenors of my own institute, the Institute of Group
Analysis London, who I have worked with down the years merit special mention.
We worked together to develop a curriculum, write a handbook and establish an
MSc programme with our academic partner, Birkbeck College, University of
London, now in its 18th year. The introduction to this book by the former head of
the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, Prof. Stephen Frosh,
gives one tribute to this work. Another is in the citations and references to our
graduates’ theory papers and dissertations written during their training, some of
which now inform the literature and many of which have been quoted from with
their permission.
It is dedicated with a full heart and deep appreciation to those who have attended
my groups – therapy and experiential groups – and the groups of my colleagues
and supervisees. Your lives populate the pages of this book. I have drawn on
your stories and taken liberties with them and your identities, to re-arrange them
and so protect your confidentiality that would allow an authentic portrayal of our
work together. This protocol is in line with the code on confidentiality set out
by the Institute of Group Analysis and International Psychoanalytic Association.
I have made every effort to reach you, secure your consent to this publication or
make amendments to meet your concerns if experience described here was likely
to be recognisable. Where called for, vignettes have been amended or removed.
I did not anticipate the active co-operation shown by those approached. Many of
you have participated by providing memories that augmented my own records,
xii Dedication
allowing me to edit the vignettes and shape them more authentically. I thank you
all. The work goes back many years, and there may be some who think they find
themselves here who have not heard from me first. Similarities in this material to
the actual therapy of anyone – alive or not – is accidental. I trust readers will find
that the accounts are set out here on professional terms, first to honour the work
we have done together and second to serve the field in good faith. For this I thank
you twice.
Contents
List of vignettes xv
List of tables xviii
List of figures xxi
Foreword: Stephen Frosh xxiii
Tribute: Malcolm Pines xxvi
Historical Preview: E. James Anthony xxvii
Acknowledgements xxxiv
Introduction1
SECTION I
Foundations29
SECTION II
The group-analytic model221
SECTION III
Dynamics of change325
Index 475
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