ABSTRACT

This book presents a number of perspectives using central Lacanian concepts to invite the clinician into a different reading of the group therapy phenomena. It is intended to group therapists to take the challenge and begin to wrestle with Lacanian concepts as they look at the group.

part |57 pages

Part I

chapter One|6 pages

Jacques Lacan 1901–1981

chapter Five|7 pages

From need, through demand, to desire

chapter Six|7 pages

Revolution, evolution: change and desire*

Part one: vicissitudes of the imaginary in the group

part |43 pages

Part II

chapter Seven|10 pages

Revolution, evolution: change and desire*

Part two: from identification to the desire of the other

chapter Eight|8 pages

On knowing too much

chapter Ten|11 pages

Conclusion

Between an answer and a question: personal musings on psychotherapy and spirituality