ABSTRACT
The nature of the patients' complaints vary enormously, yet they show repetitive patterns which are characteristic and typical of special conditions and particular problems. The group situation also revives and brings to light the deep and central forces underlying mental conflict. They appear in the way in which members of a group-analytic group relate to the conductor on the one hand and to their fellow patients individually and as a group on the other. It is fairly easy to see why the majority of people in the patient's environment take up this attitude. Neurosis is in fact an extremely widespread condition, and even those who are rightly considered normal and healthy very often have some weak spots themselves. The fact has certain consequences and imposes certain limitations on the value of group treatment in cases which require a complete, detailed, and systematic revision of childhood experiences and childhood neurosis.
