Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeremy Holmes Acknowledgements Introduction: Looking at Groups The Individual and the Group Growing a Group What Happens in a Group? Working in the Group: Negotiating the Boundaries Working in the Group: Intervention and Interpretations Differences in Groups: Homogeneity and Heterogeneity Working Together On Becoming a Group Therapist Glossary Bibliography.

About the Author

BILL BARNES was, until his death, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Director of the NHS Consultation and Psychotherapy Service in Liverpool. SHEILA ERNST is a Training Group Analyst with the Group Analyst Network and teaches at Birkbeck College and the Institute of Group Analysis. She is co-author (with Lucy Goodison) of In Our Own Hands and co-editor of Living with the Sphinx (with Marie Maguire). KEITH HYDE is a Consultant Psychotherapist and former Medical Director of an NHS Mental Health Trust, Group Analyst and Convenor of the Manchester Course in Group Psychotherapy.