The Discovery of the Therapeutic Community

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Historical Overview 1
5. Volume I. The Socio-Psychological Perspective
6. Introduction 37
7. A New Social Psychiatry: A World War II Legacy
8. The Transformation of Selection Procedures 41
9. The Discovery of the Therapeutic Community 68
10. Transitional Communities and Social Reconnection 88
11. Varieties of Group Process
12. Bion Revisited 115
13. An Educational Model for Group Dynamics 141
14. Experiential Learning in Groups I 165
15. Experiential Learning in Groups II 186
16. The Psycho-Dynamics of an Inter-Group Experience 199
17. Courses and Working Conferences as Transitional Learning Institutions 221
18. Action Research in Minisocieties 246
19. Task and Sentient Systems and Their Boundary Controls 259
20. Individual, Group and Inter-Group Processes 272
21. New Paths in Family Studies
22. The Study and Reduction of Group Tensions in the Family 287
23. Non-Medical Marital Therapy 299
24. Conjugal Roles and Social Networks 323
25. Dual-Career Families 351
26. The Dynamics of Organizational Change
27. Working-Through Industrial Conflict 375
28. The Use of Unrecognized Cultural Mechanisms in an Expanding Machine Shop 405
29. On the Dynamics of Social Structure 420
30. Social Systems as a Defense Against Anxiety 439
31. A Psychoanalytical Perspective on Social Institutions 463
32. The Assumption of Ordinariness as a Denial Mechanism 476
33. Temporary Withdrawal from Work Under Full Employment 494
34. Freedom and Justice Within Walls 511
35. The Unconscious in Culture and Society
36. Culture as a Psycho-Social Process 535
37. Thoughts on the Meaning of the Word Democracy 546
38. Notes on the Russian National Character 558
39. Latent Content of Television Viewing 574
40. Asylum and Society 586
41. Contributors 613
42. Subject Index 615
43. Name Index 623