Basic aspects of psychoanalytic group therapy [electronic resource] / Peter Kutter ; translated by Angela Molnos.

This translation first published in 1982.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Indication for treatment and the contract -- 2. Understanding, observing, interpreting -- 3. Three theoretical models of psychoanalytic group therapy -- 4. The first session of Group 1 -- 5. Hatred and love between the sexes : continuation -- 6. Resistance and defence in psychoanalytic group therapy -- 7. Transference in psychoanalytic group therapy, exemplified by Group 2 -- 8. The struggle with authority. Subsequent course of the group process in Group 2 -- 9. The group process : each individual participates in shared events -- 10. Early mother-child relationship in the group : split into good and bad -- 11. Self-destruction of a group or the result of constructive separations? -- 12. Sexuality and the Oedipus complex in the group -- 13. Aggressiveness in the group -- 14. The conductor's function -- 15. The relationship between individuals, the psychoanalyst and the group -- 16. The end phase of the group process -- 17. After group therapy has ended.