From crowd psychology to the dynamics of large groups : historical, theoretical and practical considerations

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Series Foreword
Introduction
1. Nineteenth-century crowd psychology
	Modernity and the construction of the concept of the individual
	From the individual to the crowd in the nineteenth century
	The nineteenth century and the zenith of European civilization: perspectives and fears
	Crowd psychology in the nineteenth century
	Gabriel Tarde: the laws of imitation, the science of opinion, and the crowd
	Gustave Le Bon and crowd psychology
2. Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology
	From crowd to mass psychology in the twentieth century
	Sigmund Freud’s mass psychology
		The mass, the unconscious, and the libidinal tie
		The drive circuit in group ties: an economic point of view
	The illusory nature of group formations
	The legacy of Freud’s mass psychology
3. Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology
	Freudo-Marxism
	The Frankfurt School and mass psychology
	Two critical contributions to Freud’s mass psychology: Lukács and Adorno
4. Reflections on a society of individuals
	Interweaving theories
	The sociology of Georg Simmel
		The study of socialization (Vergesellschaftung) or sociation in individual-society relations
	Norbert Elias and the interdependent individuals
		The individualization and the we–I balance in The Society of Individuals
		The concept of figuration
	Approximations between Simmel and Elias
	Towards a society of persons
5. The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England
	The Northfield experiments: some early influences
	The Northfield experiments: 1942–1946
		Rickman and Bion: the first experiment
		Bridger, Main, and Foulkes: the second experiment
	Legacies
6. Group relations and Bion’s legacy
	After World War II
	The creation of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
	Bion’s basic-assumption group and the work group
	The creation of the group relations conferences
7. Towards new basic assumptions in groups
	A new world Zeitgeist for group work
	Towards the postulation of new basic assumptions
	Pierre Turquet: the theory of Oneness
	Lawrence, Bain, and Gould: the Me-ness theory
8. Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social unconscious
	Foulkes and group analysis
	The internalization of the external world and the notion of social unconscious
		The “social a priori” and the social unconscious
	Group analysis and the social unconscious
		From mind to matrix
		Tripartite matrices
	Perspectives on the social unconscious and large groups
9. Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis
	Mapping the field
		Size and setting
	Perspectives in group-analytic large groups
		The psychodynamics of large groups
		Patrick de Maré’s perspectives
	Challenges in group-analytic large groups
		Conducting/convening large groups
		Experiences in large groups in group analysis
	Contemporary experiences in group-analytic large groups
10. Traumatic experience in the unconscious life of social 
systems: Earl Hopper’s theory of the fourth basic assumption of Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
	Introduction
		From Cohesion to Incohesion
	“Notes” on the Theory and Concept of the Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
	Comment on Hopper’s “Notes” on the Theory and Concept of the Fourth Basic Assumption in the Unconscious Life of Groups and Group-like Social Systems: Incohesion: Aggregation/Massification or (ba) I: A/M
		“A fourth basic assumption”
		Bi-polar sociocultural states of Incohesion and the dialectics without synthesis in tripartite matrices
		Personification in Incohesion processes
		Identity, social identity and recognition in the Incohesion
theory
		Some further implications of the theory of (ba) I: A/M
Epilogue
References
Index