Richard M. Billow's Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process

Tzachi Slonim, PhD, studied philosophy in the critical rationalist tradition before becoming a clinical psychologist. He maintains a private practice in New York City and is an adjunct professor at the Doctoral Programs in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and Pace University and at the Postdoctoral Program in Group Psychotherapy at Adelphi University. Richard M. Billow, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and holds postdoctoral certificates in psychoanalysis and group psychotherapy. For many years he directed the Postgraduate Group Program at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University. He is a frequent contributor to psychoanalytic and group literature, and the author of Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (2003), Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal: The 3 Rs (2010), and Developing Nuclear Ideas (2016). He is a clinical professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy at Adelphi, and practices in Great Neck, New York.

Section I. 1. On the Origin of Clinical Intervention 2. Self-disclosure and Psychoanalytic Meaning 3. It’s All About "Me" 4. Working with Therapists in Group Section II. 5. LHK: Bion’s Basic Affects 6. From Countertransference to Passion 7. Relational Variations of the Container-Contained Section III. 8. Bonding: The Group Therapist’s Contribution 9. Developing Nuclear Ideas 10. Reality Testing and Testing Reality 11. Four Modes of Therapeutic Engagement: Diplomacy, Integrity, Sincerity, and Authenticity Section IV. 12: The Three Rs of Group: Resistance, Rebellion, and Refusal 13. Psychic Nodules and Therapeutic Impasses 14. A Falsifying Adolescent 15. An Intersubjective Approach to Entitlement Section V. 16. Doing Our Work: Words, Deeds, and Presence 17. Deconstructive Interventions 18. Witnessing: The Axis of Group 19. Attention-getting Mechanisms (AGMs): A Personal Journey