ABSTRACT
Group psychotherapy is practised in clinics and institutions as well as in private practice all over the world. Beyond this there is a growing realization of its significance for other groups, social life in general, social psychiatry, community therapy, selection procedures and education. There is no intrinsic reason why psychoanalysis should not in future extend its dimension and claim that group-analysis is psychoanalysis in the multi-personal situation. As far as group-analytic psychotherapy is concerned it can therefore open its doors wide to all schools, however divergent their techniques and theories are in the individual field, particularly if they share an analytic background in the broader sense. Group psychotherapy which intensifies and amplifies the social, interactional aspects of psychodynamics is thus the situation of choice for the study of therapeutic and pathogenic processes as they operate in the immediate of the therapeutic situation.
