ABSTRACT
The group-approach, observed in unorganised and spontaneous life situations, life, that is, of soldier-patients in a military hospital; free, semi-organised groups under all sorts of conditions, brought together by their chance participation in a particular form of occupation or activity, or by having been selected for a particular function or project, or organised themselves spontaneously. The psychoanalyst must remain undefined as a person, in order to enable the patient to project upon him, as on a screen, the unconscious images of his innermost self, to relive with him the vicissitudes of his long forgotten emotional relationships with his paternal figures and other persons of his past life. This chapter illustrates the mutual interactions and delimitations of these various approaches within the different situations. This was possible under the conditions of a hospital community, with " inpatients," and with the Psychiatrist living in as well. patient thus establishes a relationship of the utmost intensity and intimacy with a strange person.
