Victor L. Schermer is a clinical psychologist in Philadelphia. He is Executive Director of the Study Group for Contemporary Psychoanalytic Process and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Conflict. Malcolm Pines is a founding member of the Group-Analytic Institute and a Member of the Group-Analytic Practice, London. A consultant psychiatrist, he is Editor of the International Library of Group Psychotherapy and Group Process.
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