Community Connections & Resources
Canadian Group Psychotherapy Foundation (CGPF)
American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)
International Association of Group Psychotherapy (IAGP)
Psychotherapy Practitioner’s Research Network (PPRN)
Canadian Group Psychotherapy Association (CGPA)
Joyce, A., Tasca, G., & Ogrodniczuk, J., “Group Psychotherapy in Canada.”
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 65(4) 2015
fall/winter reading list
This season’s list highlights articles, texts and other creative and thoughtful writings which address
attachment and belonging. We believe creativity is a roadmap to making meaning.
Academic writing:
Leszcz, M. (2017). How understanding attachment enhances group therapist effectiveness.
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 67: 280-287.
Yalom, I. (2017). The Gift of Therapy - An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and their
Patients. New York: Harper Collins.
Marmarosh, C.L., Markin, R.D., & Spiegel, E.B. (2013). Attachment in Group Psychotherapy.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Levine, A. and Heller, R. (2011). Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment. New York: Penguin
Random House.
Flores, P. (2011). Addiction as an Attachment Disorder, Lanham, Maryland: Jason Aronson Inc.
Baumeister R.F., Leary M. R. (1995). The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a
Fundamental Human Motivation. Psychological Bulletin 117(3), 497-529.
doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.117.3.497
Of Interest...
Whyte, D. (1996) The House of Belonging. Langley, WA: Many Rivers Press.
Fetell Lee, I. (2018) Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness.
New York: Little, Brown Spark, Hachette Book Group.
Kinfolk Magazine: The Essentials Issue (2015). Issue Sixteen.
Conversations on Group Leadership
December 10, 2020, Virtual Conversation with Molyn Leszcz MD, FRCP ( C), CGP, DFAGPA Session Video