Psychoanalytic group therapy may be effective with poorly communicating, resistant,
or antisocial adolescents. I describe ways of thinking about and modes of working
with this population, utilizing and extending Bion’s model of the
‘container-contained’ to include a contemporary, relational perspective.
Alvarez, A.
(1997)
‘Projective Identification as a Communication: Its Grammar in
Borderline Psychotic Children’
, Psychoanalytic Dialogues7:
753–768
.
2.
Billow, R. M.
(2003) Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions
to Passion.
London: Jessica Kinsgley Publishers
.
3.
Bion, W. R.
(1961) Experiences in Groups.
London: Tavistock
.
4.
Bion, W. R.
(1967) Second Thoughts.
London: Heinemann
.
5.
Bion, W. R
(1970) Attention and Interpretation.
London: Heinemann
. Reprinted in: Seven Servants: Four Works by Wilfred R. Bion. New York:
Aronson, 1977.
6.
Bion, W. R.
(1977) Seven Servants: Four Works by Wilfred R. Bion.
New York: Aronson
.
7.
Ekstein, R.
(1966) ‘Interpretation Within the
Metaphor’, in
R. Ekstein
(ed.) Children of Time and Space, of Action and Impulse.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts
.
8.
Foulkes, S. H.
(1964) Therapeutic Group Analysis.
London: George Allen and Unwin
.
9.
Grotstein, J.
(2000)
‘Some Considerations of “Hate” and a
Reconsideration of the Death Instinct’
, Psychoanalytic Inquiry20:
462–480
.
10.
Nitsun, M.
(1996) The Anti-group.
London: Routledge
.
11.
Searles, H. F.
(1979) Countertransference and Related Subjects.
New York: International Universities Press
.
12.
Seligman, S.
(1997)
‘Historical Legacies and Contemporary Innovation: Introduction to
Symposium on Child Analysis, Part I’
, Psychoanalytic Dialogues7:
707–723
.
13.
Winnicott, D. W.
(1949)
‘Hate in the Countertransference’
, International Journal of Psychoanalysis30:
69–75
.
