ABSTRACT
In individual analysis, the analyst remains totally in the background as an actual person. The sense and effect of this is that the patient's unconscious phantasies of his parental images, or parts of them, can come fully into play, manifesting themselves by means of transference to the analyst. Naturally anyone who wants to conduct a group on analytic lines should himself be a well-trained psycho-analyst, as much in the interest of the group as in his own. Considerable experience in psychiatry is indispensable, a sound knowledge of medicine, sociology, etc., is highly desirable. The analysis of ideologies from all levels is important. The whole attitude towards health and disease, towards nervous and mental afflictions in particular, was naturally under constant review, both implicitly and explicitly. Whereas in group therapy, as much as in any other psychotherapy, the fundamental agents are catharsis, transference and the becoming conscious of the repressed by interpretation and analysis, counter-identification and projection seem of particular importance.
