About the Book
This volume gathers a selection of psychoanalytic and group analytic essays by Trigant Burrow (1875-1950), precursor of group analysis and co-founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association. They show the development of the relational orientation in psychoanalysis, and the origin and evolution of group analysis, namely, from drive to the relation and the group processes as the person's structure. The events that led Burrow from psychoanalysis to group analysis, the censorship of the psychoanalytic orthodoxy, the silence of group analysis and the distortions of historiography are reported in the editors' introductory essay. The book presents the richness and originality of the theoretic, clinical, and methodological themes developed by Burrow either in the psychoanalytic or the group analytic fields.
Table of Contents:
Series Editor’s Foreword , Foreword: “Burrow Lives Again!” , Foreword , Foreword , Parable , Introductory Essay: Trigant Burrow’s psychoanalytic and group analytic research on man’s social nature through censorship and subterranean ransacking , Editors’ note , Psychoanalytic Essays Prior to Group Analytic Researches , Editors’ note , Psychoanalysis and life, Character and the neuroses, The genesis and meaning of “homosexuality” and its relation to the problem of introverted mental states, Notes with reference to Freud, Jung, and Adler, The origin of the incest-awe, Psychoanalytic Essays in the New Perspective of Group Analysis , Editors’ note , Social images versus reality, A relative concept of consciousness. An analysis of consciousness in its ethnic origin, Psychoanalytic improvisations and the personal equation, Psychoanalysis in theory and in life† , Speaking of resistances, The problem of the transference , Group Analytic Essays , Editors’ note , The laboratory method in psychoanalysis, its inception and development, Our mass neurosis, The group method of analysis , The basis of group analysis, or the analysis of the reactions of normal and neurotic individuals , The autonomy of the “I” from the standpoint of group analysis, So-called “normal” social relationships expressed in the individual and the group and their bearing on the problems of neurotic disharmonies
About the Author :
Edi Gatti Pertegato
Review :
"Trigant Burrow, philosopher of the mind and pioneer of group analysis, was a man ahead of his time. His revolutionary ideas on the social nature of the person and the healing properties of groups anticipated the work of later figures like S.H. Foulkes and many others, but jarred with the psychoanalytic establishment of the day, whose members edged him into obscurity. It has taken several decades for Burrow's voice to be heard again. Now, thanks to the rigorous and painstaking work of reconstruction by the authors of this book, his radical therapeutic techniques and his all-embracing optimism for group therapy have come to light with a relevance which astonishes.
The authors have located Burrow in his social context through their compilation of essays and commentaries which bring him to life with refreshing veracity. Coupled with this they have faithfully reproduced his key papers, allowing the man to speak for himself. True to the spirit of group analysis, they have enabled the silence surrounding Burrow's work to be broken and in so doing they have advanced our understanding of the therapeutic nature of groups. At last, almost ninety years after his enlightened break with traditional psychoanalysis, Trigant Burrow has found champions for his beliefs. This is a book in which the past speaks to the future with prophetic wisdom."--Dr Harold Behr, consultant psychiatrist, training group analyst, Institute of Group Analysis, London, and former editor
"Trigant Burrow is a forgotten pioneer of group and social psychology whose exploration of humankind's self-destructive tendencies is of the utmost relevance in today's world. In From Psychoanalysis to Group Analysis: The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow, Edi Gatti Pertegato and Giorgio Orghe Pertegato offer us an important reminder of Burrow's long-neglected research on group analysis, which embodied a social conception of human beings, a study of their interactive behavior within the community, and an innovative tool to overcome conflict in favour of cooperation and solidarity."--Steven Rosen, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, and member of the Board of Directors
