Irene N H Harwood is the co-founder of the Society for the Study of the Self and holds a joint Assistant Clinical Professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Veterans Administration in the Department of Psychiatry. In addition, she is on the Los Angeles Group Psychotherapy Society Board representing public education; she teaches Group at the Extension Division of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute; and she consults in and practises analytic cross-cultural psychotherapy.Malcolm Pines is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and group therapist and is based at the Group-Analytic Practice in London. He is past President of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy and former Consultant at the Tavistock Clinic. He is the editor of the International Library of Group Analysis series and author of Circular Reflections: Selected Papers on Group Analysis and Psychoanalysis, published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

This book is an important introduction to the theory and practice of adapting self psychology ideas to the analytic group setting.

• Foreword, Robert D. Stolorow, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Preface, Irene N.H. Harwood. Acknowledgements. Introduction, Ernest Wolf, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. 1. A Consideration of Kohut's views on group psychotherapy, Frederic Arensberg, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York. 2. The self as a group: the group as a self, Malcolm Pines. 3. Advances in group psychotherapy and self psychology: an intersubjective approach, Irene N.H. Harwood. 4 Intersubjectivity in archaic and mature twinship in group psychotherapy, Emanuel Shapiro, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York. 5. Harvest of fire: archaic twinship and fundamental conflict within a community and in group therapy, Martin S. Livingston, New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology. 6. How does group psychotherapy Cure? A reconceptualization of the group process: from self psychology to the intersubjective perspective, Franco Paparo, Psychiatric Public Hospital and Gianni Nebbiosi, Institute for the P~sychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, Rome. 7. The group self, empathy, intersubjectivity and hermeneutics: a group analytic perspective, Sigmund W Rarterud, University of Oslo. 8. Infant research and intersubjective responsiveness in group therapy, Joan Schain- West California Institute for Clinical Social Work. 9. Examining early childhood multiple cross-cultural extended selfobject and traumatic experiences and creating optimum treatment environments, Irene N.H. Harwood. 10. A multiple selfobject and traumatizing experiences: co-therapy model at work, Damon L. Silvers, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Washington, DC. 11. Motivational Systems and group object theory: implications for group therapy, Rosemary A. Segalla, Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 12. Can group analysis/psychotherapy provide a wide angle lens for self psychology? Irene N.H. Harwood. 13. Notes on optimal responsiveness in the group process, Howard A. Bacal, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. List of Contributors. Subject Index.