Robert D. Hinshelwood is hoogleraar Psychoanalytische Studies aan de Universiteit van Essex. Zijn omvangrijke geschriften duiken in de kernprincipes van de psychoanalyse en de historische ontwikkeling ervan, met een bijzondere focus op de ingewikkelde dynamiek van groepsgedrag. Zijn werk biedt diepgaande inzichten in de complexiteit van de menselijke psyche in collectieve settings.
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.
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.