Max Pagès

Max Pagès (born January 26, 1926 in Constantinople ; † May 25, 2018 in Poissy ) was a French psychologist, psychotherapist, university professor and author.

Life

Max Pagès grew up in Paris and studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) before turning to psychology there and at the Institut national d'étude du travail et d'orientation professionnelle (Inetop) . A one-year scholarship took him to the United States in 1951 , during which time he worked for a trimester at the University of Chicago with Carl Rogers . Despite numerous differences in content, this had a great influence on his later thinking and his work. In 1952 he returned to France and worked for the consulting firm CEGOS (Commission Générale d'Organisation Scientifique du Travail). During this time he was looking for ways to use non-directive methods in training sessions and started social change experiments in companies. In 1958 he left CEGOS and founded the independent group of social scientists ARIP (Association pour la Recherche et l'Intervention en Psychosociologie). At the same time, he began to work at the University of Rennes and the Sorbonne, did his doctorate in psychology and published two books, including The Affective Life of Groups in 1968 , which incorporated experiences from his teaching activities. He tried to divide his time into three parts: teaching, publications, and experiential learning in trainings and social intervention. It was very important to him to combine personal and professional development with theoretical reflection. Pagès took on numerous influences from Europe and the USA from the areas of psychoanalysis , Marxism and existentialism . The student protests in May 1968 triggered a personal and ideological crisis, as a result of which he left the ARIP. Pagès took over the chair of social psychology at the University of Paris-Dauphine , where he founded the Laboratoire de Changement Social (Laboratory of Social Change), which he headed until 1981. He later moved to the University of Paris VII (Diderot).

He co-founded the Institut européen d'études transnationales pour le développement des groupes et des organizations (EIT - European Institute of Transnational Studies for the Development of Groups and Organizations) and was an associate member of the National Training Laboratory , Institute of applied Behavioral Science (Washington / USA) as well as honorary president of the French Federation of Integrative and Multi-Referential Psychotherapy. In June 2010 he participated in the program of the 40th anniversary of the Laboratoire de Changement Social.

Fonts

• La vie affective des groupes: esquisse d'une théorie de la relation humaine. 3. Edition. Dunod, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-10-003995-4 .
  • German: The affective life of groups: a theory of human relationship. Translated from the French by Siegfried and Mathilde Furtenbach. Klett, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-12-906290-4 .
  • Italian: L'esperienza affettiva dei gruppi. Borla 1981.
• L'orientation non-directive en psychothérapie et en psychologie sociale. Dunod, 1970.
  • Excerpt: The non-directive orientation in social psychology , in: Gruppendynamik 2 = 1971 (2), pp. 153–160.
• Trace ou Sens. Le système émotionnel. H et G Editeur, 1986.
• Le travail amoureux: éloge de l'incertitude. 1991.
• with Didier Van den Hove : Le travail d'exister: roman épistémologique. Decitre, 1996, ISBN 2-220-03882-3 .
• Psychotherapy and Complexité. Desclée de Brouwer, 1993.
• Le phénomène révolutionnaire: une régression créatrice. Desclée de Brouwer, 1998.
• La Violence politique. Toulouse 2003, ISBN 2-7492-0118-7 .
• The implication in the sciences.

Essays

• 1971: Bethel 1969. Impressions of an immigrant , in: Gruppendynamik 2 (2), pp. 112–127, English original in: JABS 1971
• 1971: A university didactic experiment , in: Gruppendynamik 2 (3), pp. 284–295, excerpt from: ARIP (ed.) (1966): Pédagogie et psychologie des groupes , Paris: Editions de l'Epi
• 1973: The laboratory with flexible structures , in: Gruppendynamik 4 (1), pp. 18–26, excerpt from chapter in: Bradford, LP; Gibb, JR; Benne, KD; Lippitt, Ronald (Ed.) (1973): The Laboratory Method of Learning and Changing , John Wiley

Web links

• Literature by and about Max Pagès in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Noel Tichy: An Interview with Max Pages. In: The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science. January 1974, 10, pp. 8-26.
2. ↑ Vincent de Gaulejac: LCS: Histoire de Vie et Choix Théoriques. ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2011. 
3. ↑ Jacques Nimier: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2011. 
4. ↑ Le Laboratoire de Changement Social fête ses 40 ans à ESCP Europe ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 9, 2011.