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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961169103321

Autore

Agazarian Yvonne M. <1929-2017.>

Titolo

Autobiography of a theory : developing the theory of living human systems and its systems-centered practice / / Yvonne M. Agazarian and Susan P. Gantt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : Jessica Kingsley, 2000

ISBN

9786610428922

9781280428920

1280428929

9781846421655

1846421659

9781417553563

1417553561

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GanttSusan Porter <1951->

Disciplina

616.89/152/01

Soggetti

Group psychoanalysis - Philosophy

Group psychotherapy - Philosophy

Social systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

COVER -- Autobiography of a Theory -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction:Curiosity and Early Musings -- 1 Trying to Make it Make Sense:Change as a Function of Discrimination and Integration -- 2 The First Try at Theory -- 3 Second Theory:Theory of the Invisible Group Bridge Construct of Role between the Individual and the Group -- 4 Theory of the Group-As-A-Whole -- 5 Thinking Systems -- 6 Systems-Centered Practice -- 7 A Theory of Living Human Systems and its Systems-Centered Practice -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Systems-centred practice and its theory are one of the most important developments in group psychology in the last forty years. In this book Yvonne Agazarian traces the evolution of her ideas and their application to create a meta-theory, the theory of living human



systems.