Difficult Patients in Group Analysis: The Personification of (ba) I:A/M

Group

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 139-171

  Hopper, Earl ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation Massification or (ba) I:A M; Bion; Foulkes; Group analysis; Group dynamics; Incohesion; Mass psychology; Role suction and personification; The fourth basic assumption; Trauma and the traumatogenic process; Turquet; Tustin; Valence; Winnicott

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043287809     PISSN: 03624021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012221300761     Document Type: Article

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