Background Readings

Agazarian, Y.M. (1969) The agency as a change agent. In A. H.Goldberg (Ed.), Blindness research: The expanding frontiers. University Parkand London: Penn State Press.

Agazarian, Y.M., & Peters, R. (1981). The visible and invisible group: Two perspectives on group psychotherapy and group process, London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd. Re-printed in paperback (1987). London : Karnac Books.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1982) Role as a bridge construct in understanding the relationship between the individual and the group. In M. Pines & L. Rafaelson (Eds.), The individual and the group, boundaries and interrelations, Vol. I, Theory. New York : Plenum Press.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1983a). Theory of invisible group applied to individual and group-as-a-whole interpretations. Group: The Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, 7 (2), 27-37.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1983b). Some advantages of applying multi-dimensional thinking to the teaching, practice and outcomes of group psychotherapy. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 33 (2), New York : International Universities Press, Inc.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1986). Application of Lewin's life space concept to the individual and group-as-a-whole systems in psychotherapy. In Stivers & Wheelan (Eds.), The Lewin legacy: Field theory in current practice. New York : Springer-Verlag.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1989a). Group-as-a-whole systems theory and practice. Group: Special Issue On The Group-As-A-Whole, Y. M. Agazarian (Ed.). 13 (3, 4), 131-155.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1989b). The invisible group: An integrational theory of group-as-a-whole, The 12th Annual Foulkes Memorial Lecture. Group Analysis: The Journal of the Group Analytic Society, 22 (4), 74-96.

Agazarian, Y.M. (1991) "Systems theory and group psychotherapy: From there-and-then to here-and-now": in The International Forum of Group Psychotherapy. 1 (3). Montreal.

Agazarian, Y.M. (2006). Systems-centered practice: Selected papers on group psychotherapy. London: Karnac Books.

Ruesch, J., & Bateson, G. (1951). Communication: the social matrix of psychiatry. New York : Norton.

Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind. New York : Ballantine Books.

Beck, A. P. (1981). A study of group phase development and emergent leadership. Group: The Journal of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, 5 (4), 48-54.

Bennis, W. G., & Shepard, H. A. (1956). A theory of group development. Human Relations, 9 (4), 415-437.

Bertalanffy, L. von (1969). General systems theory, revised edition. New York : George Braziller.

Bion, W. R. (1959). Experiences in groups. London : Tavistock.

Bowlby, J. (1969). Instinctive behavior, an alternative model. In Attachment and Loss, Vol.1, Attachment. New York : Basic Books.

Cartwright, D. & Zander, A. (1960). Group dynamics research and theory. 2nd edition. New York : Elmsford, Row, Peterson & Co..

Coleman, A. D. & Bexton, W. H. (Eds.) (1975). The group relations reader: Volume I. Washington , D.C.: A. K. Rice Institute.

Coleman, A. D. & Geller, M. H. (Eds.). (1985). The group relations reader: Volume II. Washington, D. C.: A. K. Rice Institute.

Davanloo, H. (1987). Clinical manifestations of superego pathology. International Journal of Short-Term Psychotherapy, 2, 225-254.

Durkin, J. E. (Ed.). (1981). Living groups: Group psychotherapy and general systems theory. New York : Bruner/Mazel.

Durkin, H. (1972). Group therapy and general systems theory. In C. J. Sager & H. Singer Kaplan (Eds.), Progress in group and family therapy. New York : Bruner/Mazel.

Festinger, L. (1957). A theory of cognitive dissonance. Illinois : Rowe, Peterson & Co..

Foulkes, S. H. (1964). Therapeutic group analysis. London : H. Karnac Ltd..

Horwitz, L. (1983). Projective identification in diads and groups. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 33, 259-279.

Howard, A., & Scott, R. A. (1965). A proposed framework for the analysis of stress in the human organism. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 10, 141-160.

Korzybski, A. (1948). Science and sanity: An introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics, (3rd ed.) Connecticut : International Non-Aristotelian Library, Institute of General Semantics.

Kreeger, L.C. (Ed.) (1975). The large group: dynamics and therapy. London : Constable & Company, Ltd..

Lewin, K. (1951). Field theory in social science. New York : Harper & Row.

De Maré, P. B., Piper, R., & Thompson, S. (1991). Koinonia: from hate, through dialogue, to culture in the large group . London : Karnac Books.

McCullough, L. (1991). Short term dynamic psychotherapy: A cross theoretical analysis of change mechanisms. In R. C. Curtis & G. Striker (Eds.), How people change. New York : Plenum Press.

Miller, J. (1978). Living systems. McGraw-Hill , New York.

Shannon, C. E., & Weaver, W. (1964). The mathematical theory of communication. Illinois : University of Illinois Press.

Winnicott, D. W. (1951). Transitional objects and transitional phenomena. In Playing and reality. Harmondsworth , England : Penguin, 1974.