ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes the importance of selection and grouping for Group Therapy. The emphasis of selection is on the composition of the Group in hand, the state of integration it has reached, and whether the inclusion of a particular individual is good or bad for that Group rather than for the individual in question. This type of selection puts the interests of the Group first, is "group-centred." The mode of selection has several advantages, but requires, of course, considerable experience on the part of the Therapist in the dynamics of individual psychopathology as well as those of the Group. The main advantages of such a mode of selection are the elimination of prejudice from other clinical experiences, not checked by experience in the actual group setting. There seems to be also an interesting relationship between the specificity of selection of the Group and the form of the Group.
