One and the Many

Robert Grossmark is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He teaches at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Training Program, and the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York (CUNY). He supervises in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, and the CUNY Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program. He is the co-editor of Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Gender Theory (Routledge, 2009) and writes on psychoanalytic process.Fred Wright is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He has practiced psychotherapy in New York City for forty years, writing and publishing on the topics of shame and guilt in human experience as well as violence and antisocial behavior. He is also co-editor of the book Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry (New York Academy of Sciences, 1980).

• Grossmark, Wright, Introduction. Wright, Personal Reflections on Hugh Mullan: Existential Group Therapist. Wright, Being Seen, Moved, Disrupted and Reconfigured: Group Leadership from a Relational Perspective. Weinberg, The Group as an Inevitable Relational Field Especially in Times of Conflict. Grossmark, The Edge of Chaos: Enactment, Disruption and Emergence in Group Psychotherapy. Grossmark, Repairing the Irreparable: The Flow of Enactive Engagement in Group Psychotherapy. Billow, Developing Nuclear Ideas. Levine, Progressing While Regressing in Relationships. Fosshage, Use and Impact of Empathic, Other-Centered and Self Listening/Experiencing Perspectives in Analytic Group Psychotherapy. Livingston, Interventions at an Impasse: Vulnerability, the Group Leader's Use of Self, and Sustained Empathic Focus as a Bridge Between Theory and Practice. Flores, Group Psychotherapy & Neuro-Plasticity: An Attachment Theory Perspective. Cohn, Using a Systems Lens to Illuminate the Intersubjective Field in Group. Rizzolo, Rethinking Tavistock: Enactment, the Analytic Third, and the Implications for Group Relations. Segalla, Relational Experiences in Large Group: A Therapeutic and Training Challenge.

"The relational turn and group psychotherapy - once you say it out loud it seems so obvious that you wonder why there has not always already been such an integration! The underlying principles of a "relational" or social unconscious," intersubjectivity, "the third" provide the theoretical scaffolding for synthesis, or at the very least engaged dialogue and mutual learning. With the publication of this book, Grossmark and Wright take the lead in bringing together cutting edge theorists and clinicians who "stand in the spaces" - "building bridges" - between individual relational and group psychotherapy. Relational psychoanalysis provides particularly fertile ground for systematic and thoughtful psychotherapy integration, and this book will invigorate the movement toward such clinical creativity". - Lewis Aron, Ph.D. Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. "This book is much needed in the contemporary group psychotherapy field. It breaks new theoretical ground approaching group psychotherapy from the many perspectives that come together under the relational umbrella. With abundant clinical examples it is an integrative, evocative and very helpful volume for all who practice or have an interest in group psychotherapy." - Jeffrey Kleinberg, Ph.D. Fellow and Former President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, Professor Emeritus, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York."It is at the very heart of the revolution in psychoanalytic thought that is relational theory that human beings must be understood in the context of the web of relationships that frames their lives.Yet relational practice has been very largely confined to work with individuals and to the context of the two-person relationship in the consulting room. This book represents an important extension of relational thinking, both in theory and in practice, and should be read widely by anyone interested in how people live in the wider contexts that characterize so much of our lives." - Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, distinguished professor, doctoral program in clinical psychology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, cofounder of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, author of "Therapeutic Communication", "Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy". "This book is essential reading for anyone interested in group psychotherapy, and for anyone interested in the application and expansion of relational theory to the practice of group therapy." - J. Scott Rutan, PhD, Past President and Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; Author, Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy.