Richard Billow 
Relational Group Psychotherapy [EPUB ebook] 
From Basic Assumptions to Passion

Acknowledgments. Foreword, Malcolm Pines. Introduction, James S. Grotstein. Preface: Plan of the Book. 1. The Authority of the Group Therapist’s Psychology. 2. The Therapist’s Anxiety and Resistance to Group. 3. The Basic Conflict: To Think or Anti-Think – Applying Bion’s Theory of Thinking in the Group Context. 4. Entitled Thinking, Dream Thinking, and Group Process. 5. Containing and Thinking – The Three Relational Levels of the Container–Contained. 6. Containing the Adolescent Group. 7. Bonding in Group – The Therapist’s Contribution. 8. Rebellion in Group. 9. Primal Affects – Loving, Hating, and Knowing. 10. Primal Receptivity – The Passionate Therapist: The Passionate Group. References. Index.

Richard M. Billow, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, and an active contributor to the psychoanalytic and group literature. He has been associated with the Gordon Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University, New York, since 1968, where he achieved doctorate and postdoctoral certificates in psychoanalysis and individual and group psychotherapy. He is Clinical Professor and Director of the Institute’s Postdoctoral Program in Group Psychotherapy as well as running his own private practice in Great Neck, New York.