Malcolm Pines trained in medicine at University College London and in psychoanalysis at the British Psychoanalytic Society. Founder member, Group Analytic Practice and Institute of Group Analysis; past president, Group Analytic Society, International Association of Group Psychotherapy and the Psychiatric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine; consultant psychotherapist, St. George's and Maudsley Hospitals and Tavistock Clinic; editor, Group Analysis and founder,International Library of Group Analysis.

John R. Schlapobersky graduated at University of Sussex, Institute of Education and London School of Economics. He qualified at the Institute of Group Analysis, where he serves as faculty. He was scientific secretary, Group Analytic Society; member, British Society for Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, American Group Psychotherapy Association; and founding trustee, Freedom from Torture. He practices at the Bloomsbury Psychotherapy Practice. Publications includeFrom the Couch to the Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy in Practice.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Group analysis and group-analytic psychotherapy Part 2: History and Context 2. The historical matrix of group analysis: A perspective from the history of ideas (1990) 3. The coherency of group analysis: Its emergence and surrounding, supporting network 4. Forgotten pioneers: An unwritten history of the therapeutic community - Maxwell Jones Lecture (1998) Part 3: Development of Method and Technique in Group-Analytic Psychotherapy 5. Aims of a wandering psychotherapist - Interpretation, dialogue, response: Changes in psychoanalytic theory and technique 6. Dialogue and selfhood: Discovering connections 7. The self as a group: The group as a self 8. The contribution of mirroring and resonance to psychoanalytic and group-analytic dialogue 9. Changing times, changing realities: A group-analytic perspective on the history of psychotherapy 10. Resonance as a factor in the development of intimacy 11. Listening and the sonorous self 12. More about listening Part 4: Metapsychology, Philosophy, Mind/Body 13. The 'in-between' 14. Problems with Freud's constitutional aggression and the virtues of group analysis 15. From social mind to social brain 16. Building on Bion, Following on Foulkes Part 5: Final Papers 17. Training in group analysis: Where we have come from 18. Group analysis and the affective disorders 19. Myths and mirroring 20. Narcissus and Echo: Vision and hearing in early development. Applications to individual and group psychotherapy Part 6: End Matter