ABSTRACT
The author's first meetings with Michael Foulkes were brief, since the author was en route to Normandy. Michael Foulkes was, in fact, the only person who witnessed the "Northfield experiment". The story of Foulkes' first attempts to apply group therapy in 1940 is interesting. In the late 1930s, he had often considered how rewarding it would be if his patients in analysis were to hear each other's free associations. After two years' work with fifteen patients in a group, he published a joint paper in 1942 with Eve Lewis, a psychologist. The description of group-analytic psychotherapy in Michael's last book was that group-analytic psychotherapy is a method of group psychotherapy initiated by the author in private psychiatric practice and out-patients clinics. What Foulkes did was to become a liaison officer between various groups. What he did not achieve was the next step of putting the small groups into a direct, primary, face-to-face situation with each other.
