ABSTRACT
The name group analysis is meant to pay tribute to two facts: first, that it has common ground with psycho-analysis in its general clinical and theoretical orientation and, secondly, that is has a place inside group therapy similar to that which psycho-analysis has inside psychotherapy, from its intensity and its intentions. Group analysis, on the contrary, focuses on the dynamics within the group. Its more elaborate designation of 'group-analytic psychotherapy' does justice to both points just mentioned: it is a form of psycho-analytical psychotherapy, and its frame of reference is the group as a whole. The indications for group therapy include all forms of psychoneuroses, such psychotic patients as are approachable, psychosomatic disorders, psychopathies, delinquencies. The really essential contribution which group therapy, in particular group analysis, makes to psychotherapy is that it adds another dimension to it, thus bringing for the first time the basic social context of human psychology and psychopathology into full view and living perspective.
