Richard M Billow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1659348 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard M Billow |
| PRENOMES | Richard M |
| SOBRENOME | Billow |
| ASSINATURA | BILLOW R M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Adelphi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2510-7691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy
In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. Billow integrates contemporary psychoanalytic thinking with Freudian and Kleinian core concepts, as well as Bion’s early group theory and his later metapsychology, to provide a holistic overview of group therapy and its potential benefits for patients. He incorporates major psychoanalytic thinkers outside the …
Kaës’ Internal Groups and Actual Groups
Rene Kaës (Citation2007), an influential French psychoanalyst relatively unknown to English-speaking readers, extends the field of psychoanalytic investigation and practice to groups. Building on Klein, Anzeiu, Bion, and Lacan, Kaës presents a dual-axes theory in which early oedipal and sibling complexes structure unconscious dynamics of internal groups. According to Kaës, analytic group psychotherapy provides access to the phantasies, affects, a…
Opening Laplanche’s Window
Comparing analytic activity to a spaceship launching, Laplanche (1999 Laplanche, J. (1999). Essays on Otherness. J. Fletcher, trans. & ed. NY: Routledge. [Google Scholar], pp. 231-232) suggested that there are “windows;” opportune interpretative moments. Laplanche emphasized the enduring impact of intergenerational “enigmatic messages,” such that all individuals cope with an essential “alterity” (otherness to oneself). He did not consider the cou…
Relational process in a learning group
I describe my efforts as an invited presenter to connect an ongoing educational group conducted over the Internet. To illuminate relational theory and technique, I had to forget about being an ‘expert’, and help the other participants to forget about their respective roles as students and staff members. Three frames of psychotherapy came into play that spurred group process: CBT, interpersonal-group-analytic, and relational. More important still …
Relational Group Psychotherapy
The final article, of a three part series, concentrates on the therapist: how we might think about group and leadership, and what we might offer. What holds a group together is the therapist’s ever expanding understanding of the psychic realities (the ‘truths’) of the group and its members, including oneself, and our success in interesting others in reaching and deepening such understanding, at times painful and unwelcome. Leadership is a perform…
Relational Group Psychotherapy
In a three part series, I present an overview of my approach to relationally based group psychotherapy. Topics introduced in Part I include a brief introduction to relational theory and its historical foundation; the efficacy of combined-individual psychotherapy; the central role of the therapist; and brief descriptions of key foundational concepts. Part III will present models of group leadership. In Part II, I summarise models of group process—…
Embodied Minds in Motion (Engaging My Responders)
Relational Group Psychotherapy
By our theories, techniques, personality, and spontaneous behaviour, we define how group relationships, and experiences are to be regarded, and the emotional depth to which exchanges may be considered. In a three-part series, I present an overview of my approach to relationally based group psychotherapy. I assume that the need for ‘truth’, that is, emotional meaning is primary organizer of group formation and process. Individuals and groups cycle…
Appreciating ‘Le Non/Nom’
Among Lacan’s fundamental developmental concepts is the dynamic of ‘le non/nom’. Lacan held that the paternal ‘non’ functions to separate the baby from the symbiotic and preverbal maternal relationship. Hence, ‘le non’ inaugurates ‘le nom’, naming, i.e., language usage, and energizes the infantile Oedipus complex. Likewise, in the development of new group, and as an element of any self-reflecting group, the leader serves as the ‘third,’ using and…
Bullying
Bullying is a pervasive phenomenon in human relations, in groups, and societies. It exists literally, figuratively, and psychologically, as a phenomenon both in the outside world and in the mentalities of the leader and group members. Bully/bullied motifs prevail in our profession’s clinical theorizing, thinking, and behaviour—interwoven into the fabric of culture and process of group work
It’s All About ‘Me’
The therapist’s subjectivity—the complex of personality, character, feelings, thoughts, fantasies, many of which remain out of awareness—affect how we comport ourselves, how we relate to our groups, and how they relate to us. The dynamic factor involving the group leader’s psychology—the ‘me’—is always prominent and influential, and often apparent to group members, although not always articulated consciously or publicly. Using myself as a clinica…
Anarchy
Therapists face situations in which individuals, subgroups, or groups cannot or will not tolerate and rebel against truth seeking. Anarchy, a virulent form of rebellion, utilizes excessive and violent projective identification to engulf participants in treatment—destructive enactments. Anarchic members and/or group processes aggressively disturb mental and emotional links within and among individuals through which truth is negotiated and substant…
Working Relationally with the Adolescent in Group
Psychoanalytic group therapy may be effective with poorly communicating, resistant, or antisocial adolescents. I describe ways of thinking about and modes of working with this population, utilizing and extending Bion’s model of the ‘container-contained’ to include a contemporary, relational perspective
A Falsifying Adolescent
The author describes an adolescent patient who, while often speaking factual truths, maintained an aura of falsity in her life, and in two interludes of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, that functioned as a barrier to psychological insight. To match her falsity, the analyst at times modified his functioning as a "real" therapist and took on her personification of neglectful and false adults. Eventually, the analyst became an object that the adolesce…
From Countertransference to “Passion”
Bion's ideas may be extended to describe an emotional phenomenology of the analyst's subjectivity and a methodology which helps differentiate countertransference enactments from fuller emotional participation. Bion called the process of integrating and utilizing one's most basic and important emotions to make meaning, "passion." The analyst's primal feelings--of love, hate, and curiosity--serve as a central organizer of meaning in the analytic in…
An Intersubjective Approach to Entitlement
Entitlement is an emotionally based but not necessarily pathological mode of experiencing psychic reality, one which belongs to both analyst and patient participating in the inter-subjective matrix. I use myself as an example of an analyst who initially believed he was constructively analyzing treatment-resistant entitlements. The course of the work involved identifying expressions of entitlement in myself, as well as in the patient or supervisee…
Observing Expressive and Deviant Language in Schizophrenia
Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia often misuse language, but whether such people are nevertheless capable of appropriate figurative language has not been studied. We investigated linguistic competence in schizophrenia and the relation between psychopathology and linguistic expressivity. Participants were 108 male, hospitalized, IQ-matched patients with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and nonpsychiatric medical diagnoses. Fr…
Empirical studies of psychoanalytic theories, Volume 2.
Metaphor
Metaphor
A cognitive developmental study of metaphor comprehension
In metaphor, sentence elements are classified according to principles of similarity, as in “hair is spaghetti” (both mixed up), or of proportionality, as in “my head is an apple without any core” (head is to apple as brain is to core). Metaphors of similarity and of proportionality, along with a pictorial form of the similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were presented to 50 5-13 yr old males. Results indicate t…
A cognitive developmental study of metaphor comprehension
In metaphor, sentence elements are classified according to principles of similarity, as in “hair is spaghetti” (both mixed up), or of proportionality, as in “my head is an apple without any core” (head is to apple as brain is to core). Metaphors of similarity and of proportionality, along with a pictorial form of the similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were presented to 50 5-13 yr old males. Results indicate t…
From Countertransference to “Passion”
Bion's ideas may be extended to describe an emotional phenomenology of the analyst's subjectivity and a methodology which helps differentiate countertransference enactments from fuller emotional participation. Bion called the process of integrating and utilizing one's most basic and important emotions to make meaning, "passion." The analyst's primal feelings--of love, hate, and curiosity--serve as a central organizer of meaning in the analytic in…
An Intersubjective Approach to Entitlement
Entitlement is an emotionally based but not necessarily pathological mode of experiencing psychic reality, one which belongs to both analyst and patient participating in the inter-subjective matrix. I use myself as an example of an analyst who initially believed he was constructively analyzing treatment-resistant entitlements. The course of the work involved identifying expressions of entitlement in myself, as well as in the patient or supervisee…
Opening Laplanche’s Window
Comparing analytic activity to a spaceship launching, Laplanche (1999 Laplanche, J. (1999). Essays on Otherness. J. Fletcher, trans. & ed. NY: Routledge. [Google Scholar], pp. 231-232) suggested that there are “windows;” opportune interpretative moments. Laplanche emphasized the enduring impact of intergenerational “enigmatic messages,” such that all individuals cope with an essential “alterity” (otherness to oneself). He did not consider the cou…
A Falsifying Adolescent
The author describes an adolescent patient who, while often speaking factual truths, maintained an aura of falsity in her life, and in two interludes of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, that functioned as a barrier to psychological insight. To match her falsity, the analyst at times modified his functioning as a "real" therapist and took on her personification of neglectful and false adults. Eventually, the analyst became an object that the adolesce…
A cognitive developmental study of metaphor comprehension
In metaphor, sentence elements are classified according to principles of similarity, as in “hair is spaghetti” (both mixed up), or of proportionality, as in “my head is an apple without any core” (head is to apple as brain is to core). Metaphors of similarity and of proportionality, along with a pictorial form of the similarity metaphors, proverbs, and several Piaget-type cognitive tasks, were presented to 50 5-13 yr old males. Results indicate t…
Metaphor
Metaphor
Empirical studies of psychoanalytic theories, Volume 2.
Observing Expressive and Deviant Language in Schizophrenia
Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia often misuse language, but whether such people are nevertheless capable of appropriate figurative language has not been studied. We investigated linguistic competence in schizophrenia and the relation between psychopathology and linguistic expressivity. Participants were 108 male, hospitalized, IQ-matched patients with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and nonpsychiatric medical diagnoses. Fr…
An Intersubjective Approach to Entitlement
Entitlement is an emotionally based but not necessarily pathological mode of experiencing psychic reality, one which belongs to both analyst and patient participating in the inter-subjective matrix. I use myself as an example of an analyst who initially believed he was constructively analyzing treatment-resistant entitlements. The course of the work involved identifying expressions of entitlement in myself, as well as in the patient or supervisee…
From Countertransference to “Passion”
Bion's ideas may be extended to describe an emotional phenomenology of the analyst's subjectivity and a methodology which helps differentiate countertransference enactments from fuller emotional participation. Bion called the process of integrating and utilizing one's most basic and important emotions to make meaning, "passion." The analyst's primal feelings--of love, hate, and curiosity--serve as a central organizer of meaning in the analytic in…
Working Relationally with the Adolescent in Group
Psychoanalytic group therapy may be effective with poorly communicating, resistant, or antisocial adolescents. I describe ways of thinking about and modes of working with this population, utilizing and extending Bion’s model of the ‘container-contained’ to include a contemporary, relational perspective
A Falsifying Adolescent
The author describes an adolescent patient who, while often speaking factual truths, maintained an aura of falsity in her life, and in two interludes of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, that functioned as a barrier to psychological insight. To match her falsity, the analyst at times modified his functioning as a "real" therapist and took on her personification of neglectful and false adults. Eventually, the analyst became an object that the adolesce…
Anarchy
Therapists face situations in which individuals, subgroups, or groups cannot or will not tolerate and rebel against truth seeking. Anarchy, a virulent form of rebellion, utilizes excessive and violent projective identification to engulf participants in treatment—destructive enactments. Anarchic members and/or group processes aggressively disturb mental and emotional links within and among individuals through which truth is negotiated and substant…
It’s All About ‘Me’
The therapist’s subjectivity—the complex of personality, character, feelings, thoughts, fantasies, many of which remain out of awareness—affect how we comport ourselves, how we relate to our groups, and how they relate to us. The dynamic factor involving the group leader’s psychology—the ‘me’—is always prominent and influential, and often apparent to group members, although not always articulated consciously or publicly. Using myself as a clinica…
Bullying
Bullying is a pervasive phenomenon in human relations, in groups, and societies. It exists literally, figuratively, and psychologically, as a phenomenon both in the outside world and in the mentalities of the leader and group members. Bully/bullied motifs prevail in our profession’s clinical theorizing, thinking, and behaviour—interwoven into the fabric of culture and process of group work
Appreciating ‘Le Non/Nom’
Among Lacan’s fundamental developmental concepts is the dynamic of ‘le non/nom’. Lacan held that the paternal ‘non’ functions to separate the baby from the symbiotic and preverbal maternal relationship. Hence, ‘le non’ inaugurates ‘le nom’, naming, i.e., language usage, and energizes the infantile Oedipus complex. Likewise, in the development of new group, and as an element of any self-reflecting group, the leader serves as the ‘third,’ using and…
Relational Group Psychotherapy
The final article, of a three part series, concentrates on the therapist: how we might think about group and leadership, and what we might offer. What holds a group together is the therapist’s ever expanding understanding of the psychic realities (the ‘truths’) of the group and its members, including oneself, and our success in interesting others in reaching and deepening such understanding, at times painful and unwelcome. Leadership is a perform…
Relational Group Psychotherapy
In a three part series, I present an overview of my approach to relationally based group psychotherapy. Topics introduced in Part I include a brief introduction to relational theory and its historical foundation; the efficacy of combined-individual psychotherapy; the central role of the therapist; and brief descriptions of key foundational concepts. Part III will present models of group leadership. In Part II, I summarise models of group process—…
Embodied Minds in Motion (Engaging My Responders)
Relational Group Psychotherapy
By our theories, techniques, personality, and spontaneous behaviour, we define how group relationships, and experiences are to be regarded, and the emotional depth to which exchanges may be considered. In a three-part series, I present an overview of my approach to relationally based group psychotherapy. I assume that the need for ‘truth’, that is, emotional meaning is primary organizer of group formation and process. Individuals and groups cycle…
Relational process in a learning group
I describe my efforts as an invited presenter to connect an ongoing educational group conducted over the Internet. To illuminate relational theory and technique, I had to forget about being an ‘expert’, and help the other participants to forget about their respective roles as students and staff members. Three frames of psychotherapy came into play that spurred group process: CBT, interpersonal-group-analytic, and relational. More important still …
Opening Laplanche’s Window
Comparing analytic activity to a spaceship launching, Laplanche (1999 Laplanche, J. (1999). Essays on Otherness. J. Fletcher, trans. & ed. NY: Routledge. [Google Scholar], pp. 231-232) suggested that there are “windows;” opportune interpretative moments. Laplanche emphasized the enduring impact of intergenerational “enigmatic messages,” such that all individuals cope with an essential “alterity” (otherness to oneself). He did not consider the cou…
Kaës’ Internal Groups and Actual Groups
Rene Kaës (Citation2007), an influential French psychoanalyst relatively unknown to English-speaking readers, extends the field of psychoanalytic investigation and practice to groups. Building on Klein, Anzeiu, Bion, and Lacan, Kaës presents a dual-axes theory in which early oedipal and sibling complexes structure unconscious dynamics of internal groups. According to Kaës, analytic group psychotherapy provides access to the phantasies, affects, a…
Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy
In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. Billow integrates contemporary psychoanalytic thinking with Freudian and Kleinian core concepts, as well as Bion’s early group theory and his later metapsychology, to provide a holistic overview of group therapy and its potential benefits for patients. He incorporates major psychoanalytic thinkers outside the …
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