Bøker av Earl Hopper

A collection of contributions from psychoanalysts, group analysts and organisational consultants from Europe, Australia and the United States that examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious life of those organisations in which traumatic experience is ubiquitous.

Working within the traditions of Bion, Turquet, Foulkes and Pines, and drawing on concepts and data from psychoanalysis, group analysis and sociology, this volume develops Earl Hopper's theory of the fourth basic assumption in the unconscious life of groups and group-like social systems within a social, cultural and political context.

The social unconscious and its manifestations in group analysis are the focus of this important new book of Earl Hopper's selected papers. Drawing on sociology, psychoanalysis and group analysis, he argues that groups and their participants are constrained unconsciously by social, cultural and political facts and forces.