Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: The Psychological and Social Impact of a Virus; 1. The Reversal of Meanings, Values and Attitudes; The Sinister Features of the Retrovirus Called HIV; The Language around HIV/AIDS and Semantic Distortions; Values and Attitudes; 2. Anxieties and Emotions of Individuals Affected by HIV/ARC/AIDS; Before the HIV Test Result; HIV -Positive Test Result; The Appearance of ARC; Diagnosis: AIDS; 3. The Relevance of Group Analysis; The AIDS Crisis and Group Analysis; Theoretical Assumptions.

The Practice of Group-Analytic PsychotherapyApplication to Staff Support Groups; 4. Healing Power and Destructive Power of Groups; Part Two: Group Responses to the AIDS Crisis: Experiences from a Workshop; 5. From the First Idea to the Final Format; The Aims of the Workshop; The First Ideas; The Way in; Towards the Final Format; 6. Participants, Staff and the Spirit of the Workshop; 7. The Four Talks; Introductory Talk; 'The Power of Groups'; 'Reactions in and Around a Hospital's AIDS Team'; 'The AIDS Crisis and Society at Large'; 8. The Unspeakable Emerges from the non-Fishbowl.

The Bridge between the Small Groups and the Workshop as a WholeThe Conductor's Personal Account; The non-Fishbowl Seen by a Participant; Other Participants' Responses; Group-Analytic Considerations; 9. What Happened Behind Seven Closed Doors?; Composition of the Small Groups; The Nature of the Reports; Reports by Group Members and Conductors; A Group-Analytic Overview of the Seven Groups; 10. Facing the Darkness in the Last Plenary Session; Summary; Extracts; 11. The Participants' Evaluation of the Workshop; Positive Aspects of the Workshop; Negative Aspects of the Workshop.

12. Lessons Derived from the Workshop13. Recommendations; Part Three: Looking Towards the Future; 14. Strange Phenomena; 15. Group-Analytic and Other Group Work in a World that Lives With AIDS; We are All Involved; Group Versus Secrecy and Isolation; Groups for the Carers: sharing the Uncertainties; Support Group for Health Advisers at the Praed Street Clinic; The Use of Non-Group-Analytic Techniques; The Group-Analytic Thread; Postscript; Appendices; Ia: Leaflet; Ib: Registration Form; II: Members of Staff and Speakers; III: Group Conductors' Meeting; IV: Programme for Staff.

V: Programme for ParticipantsVI: Evaluation Form; References and Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.