Carla Penna

From Crowd Psychology to the Dynamics of Large Groups

Historical, Theoretical and Practical Considerations

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers transdisciplinary research on the history of the study of social formations, ranging from nineteenth-century crowd psychology in France and twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology, including the developments in critical theory, to the study of the psychodynamics of contemporary large groups.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780367024499
• ISBN-10: 0367024497
• Artikelnr.: 59983103

Autorenporträt

Carla Penna, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and a group analyst in Brazil. She is a member of the Psychoanalytic Circle of Rio de Janeiro and the Group Analytic Society International.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Series Foreword by Earl Hopper
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Nineteenth-century crowd psychology
CHAPTER TWO
Twentieth-century Freudian mass psychology
CHAPTER THREE
Twentieth-century left-wing mass psychology
CHAPTER FOUR
Reflections on a society of individuals
CHAPTER FIVE
The Northfield experiments: the cradle of group work in England
CHAPTER SIX
Group relations and Bion's legacy
CHAPTER SEVEN
Towards new basic assumptions in groups
CHAPTER EIGHT
Foulkes and group analysis: the development of the theory of the social
unconscious
CHAPTER NINE
Large-group psychodynamics in group analysis
CHAPTER TEN
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
Epilogue
References
Index