Robert D. Hinshelwood is a distinguished scholar in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex. His extensive writings delve into the core tenets of psychoanalysis and its historical development, with a notable focus on the intricate dynamics of group behavior. His work offers profound insights into the complexities of the human psyche within collective settings.
We are rooted in the experience of our feelings. We feel ourselves as persons. Such affects are not communicated but exchanged with others. Affects are crucial to our existence but little understood with myriad theories. This book brings together the confusion of what is known from a wide range of studies and transforms them into a coherent whole.
The author works through the psychoanalytic concepts which bear on what happens in groups. His examples are drawn from many years of experience in therapeutic communities, but are relevant to any sort of group. Author of the Dictionary of Kleinian Thought, Hinshelwood draws on the ideas of Jacques, Bion and Menzies Lyth.