LEADER 03112oam 2200601I 450 001 9910787930403321 005 20230814232213.0 010 $a0-429-91111-4 010 $a0-429-89688-3 010 $a0-367-10270-6 010 $a0-429-47211-0 010 $a1-78241-280-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000576745 035 $a(EBL)1848012 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001432480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11851508 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001432480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11405484 035 $a(PQKB)10614907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1848012 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1848012 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10989908 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL663060 035 $a(OCoLC)896800070 035 $a(OCoLC)952456997 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB141722 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000576745 100 $a20180611h20182014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAttention, cooperation, purpose $ean approach to working in groups using insights from Wilfred Bion /$fby Robert French 210 1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cRoutledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,$d[2018]. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78220-131-9 311 $a1-322-31778-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCOVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Attention; CHAPTER TWO Distraction; CHAPTER THREE Truth; CHAPTER FOUR Cooperation; CHAPTER FIVE Purpose; CHAPTER SIX Forms of interaction; CHAPTER SEVEN Learning the work of attention; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX 330 3 $aThis book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can promote a better understanding of purpose, making it possible for them to do what they have met to do. This work of attention enables group members to maintain a clear sense of their purpose and also to recognise how easily they can become distracted, losing focus and dispersing their energies into activities that are off task. The approach builds on the authors' experience of using Bion's insights into group dynamics over twenty-five years in different contexts, formal and informal, as group members, managers, leaders, teachers, consultants, researchers, family members, and friends. 606 $aPsychoanalysis$vEncyclopedias 615 0$aPsychoanalysis 676 $a616.891703 700 $aFrench$b Robert$01119645 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787930403321 996 $aAttention, cooperation, purpose$93687964 997 $aUNINA