ABSTRACT
It seems difficult for many at the present time to accept the idea that what is called "the mind" consists of interacting processes between a numbers of closely linked persons, commonly called a group. All phenomena in an analytic therapeutic group are considered as potential communications. This dynamic way of putting it eliminates the need for the usual concept of the repressed unconscious, defences, and so forth, which is necessitated in a psychoanalytic orientation. The psychoanalytical view takes the individual mind as the unit of observation and tries to understand all mental processes in terms of this individual mind. The original family is indeed the primary network in which the personality of the future individual is decisively formed; the whole of psychoanalysis has borne that out beyond reasonable doubt. This family network, which seen as a group, acts as a whole complicated formulation.
