The Power Of Group Attachment John Bowlby Revisited From A Group-Analytic Perspective | Mental Health

The Power of Group Attachment provides evidence for the fundamental role that interpersonal and group attachment have played in our survival and evolution as individuals groups organisations and species. Arturo Ezquerro and María Cañete deliver a creative integration of updated theoretical knowledge meticulous research and inspiring clinical work; they go beyond the consulting room and draw on cross-cultural studies to postulate that there is no such thing as individual or interpersonal attachment without group attachment. Their joint work enhances and brings closer together the fields of group analysis and attachment theory. Compelling narratives from group-analytic psychotherapy for a broad range of problems (including trauma suicidality mood disorder and psychosis) demonstrate effective change from polarisation and hatred (idealising one’s own group and denigrating others') to working through conflict and accepting real differences between members the hallmark of both therapy and healthy social life. Original scholarly yet personal and accessible the book is addressed to mental health professionals and managers as well as politicians and educators: it expands the reader’s social and democratic consciousness at this crucial time when our world is descending fast into pathology global warming and vicious violence stemming from unresolved personal and collective trauma. |The Power of Group Attachment John Bowlby Revisited from a Group-Analytic Perspective | Mental Health