ABSTRACT
A complete film and sound recording which would register all this is obviously far too expensive and cumbersome for ordinary clinical use, and could only be made quite exceptionally. With modern sound-recording machines there is no difficulty in recording the whole session, with the agreement of its members. Clearly a sound recording is far from being a complete record of a group session. The value of group psychotherapy for didactic purposes highlights the need for recording the rich but ephemeral experiences of a group session. Group reports need not be made by the conductor. Sometimes a member of the group may volunteer to write them down. Making a report from memory is open to many obvious objections – that there will be distortion, misrepresentation, biased selection, and subjectivity – which from a strictly scientific point of view must be admitted.
