Being and belonging : group, intergroup, and gestalt / Gaie Houston.

By: Houston, Gaie, 1933-.

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BookSeries: Wiley series on psychotherapy and counselling: Publisher: Chichester, England ; New York : Wiley, 1993Description: xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0471935484 .Subject(s): Group psychotherapy -- Case studies

| Gestalt therapy -- Case studies | Gestalt therapy

| Identification (Psychology)

DDC classification: 616.89152

Contents:

Sunday evening: initial conditions -- Monday morning: survival -- Monday afternoon: insiders and outsiders -- Monday evening: Thurber's war -- Tuesday morning: the dream of leadership -- Tuesday afternoon: where do I belong? -- Tuesday evening: the group beast -- Wednesday morning: dialogue -- Wednesday afternoon: pairing -- Wednesday evening: destructuring or destruction -- Thursday morning: new configurations -- Thursday afternoon: nodal points and self-regulation -- Friday morning: the group boundary -- Friday afternoon: the wider gestalt -- The follow-up: assimilation, new awareness and beginnings.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An absorbing account of the ways in which the concept of relatedness is explored during a fictional residential group experience. Participants talk for themselves, representing a range of theoretical viewpoints. Through use of this moving dialogue, readers are guided through a series of crucial issues providing emotional and theoretical insight into the enmeshed processes of intimacy and power systems.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

About the author Gaie Houston first studied group behaviour with National Training Laboratories in the States. She has worked as a consultant in many organisations, as well as teaching gestalt, unconscious group process and other group topics in a number of countries. She has written many plays which have been broadcast by the BBC, and has had three stage plays performed. She has written five books on aspects of group behaviour, including The Red Book of Gestalt, The Red Book of Groups, and Supervision and Counselling. She lives in London and Oxford, is married, and has two children.