ABSTRACT
Simple facts or skills may be taught by a teacher to a pupil in more-or-less didactic form and by example. The teaching/learning process is one and the same. The teacher must in turn be a good learner in understanding the pupils' difficulties. Both psychotherapy and teaching are therefore ultimately concerned with the question of change of attitude in the whole person. If we teach psychotherapy itself this is certainly a matter of intensive personal involvement and the didactic method or learning from books is by itself almost useless. Psychotherapy can best be taught in the ongoing process of a therapeutic situation. According to the model of psychoanalysis which to some extent we maintain in group analysis a special situation is reserved for the therapeutic analysis itself. The behaviour in this group, the operating group itself, was taken into account, taking its proper place in the psychodynamic procedure, but it was not unduly encouraged to become a preoccupation of the group.
