ABSTRACT
Klapman sees in Group Therapy predominantly a Method of "affective Re-education." This is certainly an important aspect and—if taken wide enough—could also be said of Psychotherapy in general and Psycho-Analysis. He thinks that the role of education is fundamental to the maintenance of mental health, and that all general education is experience. It can be divided into affective and orientative re-education. Sternbach* also thinks that the basic dynamics of all forms of therapy-group methods are identical and the therapeutic results the same: ego-strengthening emotional maturation and socialization. Ackerman makes a rather sharper delineation between 'outer' and "inner" conflicts, between old standing disturbances based on childhood experiences and recent ones. The mutual indications for a group analytic or individual analytic approach not as sharply delineated but rather as a matter of degree.
