The group as matrix of the individual’s mental life

This article was requested by the editors for the first volume of a new annual series. The volume was dedicated to the memory of Asya Kadis, who had been Director of Group Therapy at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York. In the United States, apart from individual colleagues who had had close contact with group analysis in London, Mrs Kadis and some of her colleagues at the Postgraduate Center were probably nearest to Foulkes in their views.