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Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame

By Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel

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The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame by Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel expands the boundaries of Group Relations theory by integrating classical concepts with diverse psychological and social science paradigms. The authors enrich traditional Tavistock approaches by incorporating Lacanian psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and bioenergetics, alongside broader social science ideas such as abstraction, community dynamics, and semiotics. This work reinterprets non-Tavistock group development models within a group-as-a-whole framework, aiming to renew and diversify the field's theoretical and practical applications.
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This book is suited for readers with a strong interest in philosophy, psychology, social sciences, and advanced group dynamics. It will appeal particularly to scholars, practitioners, and students engaged with Group Relations, psychoanalysis, and contemporary theories of community and organisational behaviour seeking to deepen their understanding beyond traditional paradigms.

In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, the authors attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations paradigms by pairing classical Group Relations concepts with typically non-Tavistock psychology paradigms and social sciences concepts.

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In The Tavistock Learning Group: Exploration Outside the Traditional Frame, authors Clive Hazell and Mark Kiel attempt to expand the heuristic, theoretical, and applied dimensions of Group Relations paradigms by pairing classical Group Relations concepts with typically non-Tavistock psychology paradigms and social sciences concepts.

Under the broad domain of psychologically-informed constructs, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existential philosophy and bioenergetics are applied. Under a somewhat broader range of social science conceptualisation, the capacity for abstraction is linked with anti-work in groups, the large group is re-imagined as an extension of community dynamics and dysfunction, and the role of symbol systems, symbology and semiotics are examined in relation to sophisticated work groups.

Lastly, non-Tavistock models of group development and conceptualisation are re-interpreted and explained using a group-as-a-whole framework. Much work in this field has been based on one or two paradigms, notably stemming from the work of Rice (Learning for Leadership), Bion (Experiences in Groups), and Klein (Envy and Gratitude and Other Works).

While these models and their extensions are indeed useful, the authors argue that it is time to introduce new paradigms to enrich the interpretive possibilities of this field and to increase its applicability to modern and postmodern contexts.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782204152

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 June 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Karnac Books

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 286

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Clive Hazell Education & Reference Mark Kiel Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology

About the Author

Clive Hazell attended the Gilberd School, Colchester, England, and received a BA in Geography from Reading University, Berkshire and a Masters in Geography from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He worked on projects aimed at bringing about school change at the Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago. These were funded by the U.S. Ofice of Education and the Ford Foundation. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University in 1982 and has had a private practice in Chicago since that date. He has attended and consulted at Tavistock groups since 1978 and has published several books and papers on this and other topics. Recent books address the therapeutic impact of Tavistock groups with patients carrying diagnoses of severe mental illness. Dr Mark Kiel is a clinical psychologist, group psychotherapist, and is board certified in Organizational and Business Psychology. He is the Vice-President/President Elect of the Chicago Center for the Study of Group and Organizations (CCSGO). Over the last decade, Dr Kiel coordinated a group-based Personal and Professional Development program as part of the curriculum of a clinical psychology program and teaches courses in group dynamics, psychoanalytic theory and practice and organizational consultation. He is active in Group Relations Conferences serving as a director and consultant with particular interest in Large Study Groups, Institutional Systems Events and post conference application.