Book Announcement by Richard M. Billow (USA)

Billow, R. M. (2025). Psychoanalytic group psychotherapy: A contemporary introduction. Routledge.

In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective. He 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. Billow incorporates major psychoanalytic thinkers outside the American relational mainstream – such as Lacan, Laplanche, Kaës, Foulkes, and Pichon-Rivière – as well as his own prominent contributions to the field to provide a unique and interdisciplinary overview.

Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge) introduces challenging clinical experiences that illustrate some of the similarities and differences among psychoanalytic and other psychodynamic group approaches. Offering guidelines on how to harness and conduct the group, Billow provides insight into the veritable benefits of maintaining an analytic stance within the clinical setting.

www.routledge.com/Psychoanalytic-Group-Psychotherapy-A-Contemporary-Introduction

Richard M. Billow, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist based in New York. He was the director of the Postgraduate Group Program at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, New York and currently serves as Clinical Professor in Adelphi’s Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion (2003), Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3 Rs (2010), Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy (2015), and Richard M. Billow’s Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process: Changing Our Minds (T. Slonim, Ed., 2021).

Richard M. Billow, Ph.D.
Great Neck, NY, USA
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