LA VIDA DE UN HOMBRE QUE FUE CAPAZ DE CAMBIAR LA HISTORIA DE ROMAEste libro no es solo una completa biografía de Julio César, sino también una crónica de la decadencia y la caída del sistema republicano en Roma. En esta transición hacia el imperio, César desempeñó una función esencial. Su figura es ineludible para comprender la evolución de los problemas políticos y económicos a los que se enfrentaba la Roma de su tiempo y las profundas divisiones sociales derivada...

Τα επιτεύγματα του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου έχουν μελετηθεί από πολλούς και σημαντικούς ιστορικούς σε βάθος· ωστόσο, ο συγγραφέας και καθηγητής Richard A. Billows εγκύπτει σε περιόδους λιγότερο γνωστές, πριν και μετά τη βασιλεία του. Ερευνά τα χρόνια που προηγήθηκαν του Αλέξανδρου, ο οποίος χωρίς τα θεμέλια που έθεσε ο πατέρας του, o Φίλιππος Β΄, δε θα διέθετε ούτε τους πόρους ούτε την επιρροή που του επέτρεψαν να δημιουργήσει μία από τις μεγαλύτερες αυτοκρατορίες της ιστορίας. Ο ίδιος ο Αλέξανδ...

Integrating cutting-edge relational theory with technique, this volume reveals the deeply personal nature of the intersubjective process of group therapy as it affects the group therapist and other group members. By locating the group therapist's experience in the centre of the action, Richard M. Billow moves away from traditional approaches in group psychotherapy. Instead, he places emphasis on the effect of the therapist's own evolving psychology on what occurs and what does not occur in...

11 agosto 490 a.C., piana di Maratona. Un esercito di diecimila greci, in maggioranza ateniesi, affronta a viso aperto lo sterminato schieramento persiano. La vittoria degli invasori sembra già scritta, ma la rapidità d'attacco e l'ardore guerriero degli opliti ribaltano in poche ore l'esito della battaglia. Viene impresso un nuovo corso al futuro della Grecia e alla storia di tutto l'Occidente. Già agli occhi dei contemporanei quella storica giornata divenne la massima espressione dell'in...

Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history.The book is not just a biography of Caesar, but an historical account and explanation of the decline and fall of the Roman Republican governing system, i...

This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters examine the way the Greeks developed their unique society. The spear, scroll and pebble encapsulate the book's core ideas.The Spear: city-st...

In this comprehensive volume, Richard M. Billow provides a thorough introduction to group psychotherapy from a psychoanalytic perspective.Billow 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. He incorporates major psychoanalytic thinkers outside the American relational mainstream – such...

This comprehensive volume presents Richard M. Billow’s unique contributions to the theory and technique of psychotherapy, along with summaries and explications by the volume’s editor, Tzachi Slonim.Through their behavior, therapists define the clinical culture: how relationships are to be regarded and the depth to which narratives and exchanges may be considered. Known for his integration of Bion’s metapsychology with contemporary psychoanalysis, Billow extends our understanding of...

This book addresses the major problems of leadership in groups, organizations, and societies in the twenty-first century, when rapid change, complex dilemmas, and earth-shattering consequences affect the daily lives of people in the diverse contexts of social institutions, the corporate world, domestic politics, and international terrorism and conflict. The volume convenes a group of distinguished scholars, consultants, and leaders who address significant contemporary dilemmas that test th...

Couple psychotherapy extends the work of the psychotherapist to the patient’s most significant committed adult relationship, yet the therapy is difficult both conceptually and technically. One major reason for this difficulty is that in every couple’s treatment there is a confusing array of psychological defenses as well as regressive and nonregressive couple object relations-as distinct from the object relations that each individual member brings to the couple. Further, many of these proc...

The author expands and develops his ideas, first presented in Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion. He constructs a theoretically sophisticated, yet experience-near approach to contemporary group therapy. Building on Bion's striking theoretical realignment, replacing the polarity unconscious-conscious with infinite-finite, the author revises traditional concepts and terms to offer a new model of relational group psychotherapy.In this book he defines th...

Building and expanding on concepts presented in his previous volumes (Relational Group Psychotherapy: From Basic Assumptions to Passion, and Resistance, Rebellion and Refusal in Groups: The 3Rs), Richard M. Billow presents a coherent and innovative model of group psychotherapy. Developing Nuclear Ideas: Relational Group Psychotherapy offers, in experiential terms and with vivid examples, a theoretical and technical approach to understand and organise dynamic group process and driv...