Operative Groups: The Latin-American Approach to Group Analysis -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 A Historical Perspective -- Group analysis and operative groups -- Enrique Pichon-Rivière: pioneer and outcast -- 2 Fundamental Concepts of Operative Groups: Enrique Pichon-Rivière -- An attempted definition -- The task -- Operations research, decision making and strategic planning -- The Conceptual Referential Operative Schema (CROS) -- The individual and the group -- The group process -- A new profession -- 3 Fundamental Concepts of Operative Groups: The Authors' Point of View -- On the existence of groups -- The individual and the group -- A revision of the concept of CROS -- The problem of context -- The social and institutional dimension -- Communication, thinking, learning and change -- Summing up -- 4 The Learning Operative Group -- Introduction -- The transversal description of sessions -- The longitudinal description of the group process -- On workshops and laboratories -- Conclusions -- 5 Training of Psychotherapists, Psychoanalysts and Group Analysts -- The transmission of the analytic experience -- On group supervision -- A clinical example from a supervisory group -- An experience in the training of group-analytic family therapists -- 6 The Approach to Institutions and Society -- The individual, the group and the community -- Working with nurses in a public institution -- A reflection group in a therapeutic community -- The case of the multifamily group -- The use of operative groups in social research -- 7 A Re-evaluation of Operative Groups and Group Analysis -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.