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Individuals, Groups and Organisations
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The Individual is an ‘artificial, though plausible, abstraction’ (Foulkes, 1948): The relevance of Foulkes’s group-analytic ideas in our world today

Val ParkerPrivate Practice, Charlbury, Chipping Norton, UK;Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 72-79 | Published online: 21 Feb 2017

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