ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses an incident where the Co-ordination Group gave psychiatrists a good occasion to make the psychiatrists aware of the sort of problems they were up against and also to talk to them if the occasion arose. It describes this interaction by an episode concerning the Coordination Group, which led to an increased participation on the part of the psychiatrists, both active and passive, in the concerns of the Coordination Group and a lively cross-debate followed which by the end of the hour had completely blotted out the difference between the audience and the performers. The chapter illustrates by a few examples of enactive therapy, different types of application of the group approach and the group analytic approach in particular. The Newspaper Group performed on the stage, enacting its own habits and problems and perfectly spontaneously and often in extraordinarily humorous ways, any other topics it liked out of the soldiers' lives.