The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups and Societies

Earl Hopper, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, group analyst, certified group therapist, and organisational consultant in private practice in London. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, an Honorary Member of the Group Analytic Society International, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis, he is a supervisor and training analyst for many psychotherapy organizations in England. He is alos a former President of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy and Group Processes (IAGP), and a former Chairman of the Association of Independent Psychoanalysts of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Haim Weinberg is a Californian and Israeli licensed psychologist and group analyst. He is Past-president of the Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society and the Israeli Association of Group Psychotherapy. He is the director of an international doctorate program in psychology with an emphasis on group psychotherapy at the Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, California, where he serves as the academic Vice President.

Foreword , Introduction , The Origins of the Concept of the Social Unconscious , The concept of the social unconscious in the work of S. H. Foulkes , The concept of the co-unconscious in Moreno’s psychodrama , Enrique Pichon-Rivière: the social unconscious in the Latin-American tradition of group analysis , The Organismic and Neurobiological Perspective , Introduction , Mirror neurons, sociality, and the species homo sapiens , The group mind, systems-centred functional subgrouping, and interpersonal neurobiology , The Relational and Interpersonal Perspective , Introduction , Working intersubjectively: what does it mean for theory and therapy? , The lost roots of the theory of group analysis: “interrelational individuals” or “persons” , The Mind of the Social System , Introduction , The false we/the false collective self: a dynamic part of the social unconscious , Manifestations of psychic retreats in social systems , The Matrix of the Social System , Introduction , The social unconscious and ideology: in clinical theory and practice , The foundation matrix and the social unconscious , The Numinous and the Unknown , Introduction , The social unconscious and the collective unconscious: the Jungian perspective , Intuiting knowledge from the social unconscious with special reference to social dreaming