"A WORK BOOK OF GROUP ANALYTIC INTERVENTIONS"

by

David Kennard, Jeff Roberts and David Winter

Information put together from reviews by Jeff Roberts & David Kennard
and mounted by Chris Evans C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk

Published by Routledge. 1993. 124 pp.
Paperback ISBN 0-415-08784-8 £12.99/$19.95
Hardback ISBN: 0-415-08783-X £35.00/$65.00.

"At last, a book on group therapy which is easy to read and jargon-free, yet manages to convey the richness of the group experience. ... successfully communicates what conducting groups is all about ..."

"I highly recommend this book for novice and expert alike. It is well written, nicely organized, and originally conceived. Its interactive format enables the reader an opportunity - unique in my experience - to assess one's own clinical interventions. It leaves the reader with the sense that there is no right intervention, although some interventions are more therapeutic than others; that a skillful intervention is a teachable art form, and that providing what the group and its members need is hard, valuable, and exciting work."

"This attractively produced book will be welcomed by many who are trying to deepen their group-work skills."

"This book is a considerable achievement. It is both a valuable and original contribution to the group-analytic literature and a delight to read. ... the responses bristle with vitality and insight, honesty and humour, sensitivity and thoughtfulness. ... as an example of research in the group-analytic field, it gives encouragement to those who see research as irrelevant or ploddingly boring. ... I would not underestimate its value to experienced group Analysts and other therapists or clinicians interested in groups. To all these readers, this book will convey the excitement, the complexity, and the pitfalls of group analytic psychotherapy. It may well also increase confidence in their ability to conduct groups."

"The whole book is written in a clear manner, unfolding meaning as it goes. The authors knew well what they wished to achieve - addressing the question, what exactly do group-analysts do? - and have completed their task admirably. This book should be on the reading list of all trainees and all qualified practitioners. I recommend it without reservation."

" ... a flavour of the thinking of experienced group conductors ... inviting the reader to take on the challenge they bravely undertook. ... I hope it will generate more group analytic workbooks and that it will stimulate other schools of psychotherapy to copy the method. It is vitalizing reading for any group analyst or psychodynamic group psychotherapist and should be on the library shelves of any psychotherapy department and of any therapist with an interest in groups."

Read this book if you are a practicing group therapist, read it again if you're a group therapist and psychotherapy researcher. You're not a group therapist at all? Well read this book if you want to be forced to think more about the gulf between practice and research in some areas of psychotherapy!

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