Reflections on Group Analysis and Psychoanalysis brings together a selection of works, including several previously unpublished and available for the first time, from the three main areas of work in Malcolm Pines' career: Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. The chapters span some sixty years of his career and chart his immersion in primary training and work as a British psychoanalyst. Pines remains one of the most pivotal and important individuals in group analysis and therapy. In this book, he aims to show how Group Analytic theory is a nodal point in the network of Psychodynamic development, encompassing developmental psychology, neuroscience, ethology, social sciences and linguistics. Reflections on Group Analysis and Psychoanalysis: The Selected Works of Malcom Pines will be essential reading for students and practitioners of group analysis and therapy, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Author Biography

Malcolm Pines is a retired group analyst and psychoanalyst, a founder member of the Institute of Group Analysis and former editor of the International Library of Group Analysis. He has published widely and was the editor of Bion and Group Psychotherapy. His work remains hugely influential for anyone interested in psychoanalytic group work across a range of theoretical orientations and disciplines.