ABSTRACT
The term group analysis as a form of psychotherapy inevitably suggests a relationship to psycho-analysis. This term was meant to express this inner affinity in orientation, and also to acknowledge what group analysis owes to the experiences of psycho-analysis. They are similarities in basic orientation. Group-analytic psychotherapy, like psycho-analysis, aims at basic change and not at symptomatic relief. For reasons of clarity on differences, this chapter presents them under three headings: method and technique, therapy and its dynamics, theory. As to the first, method and technique, both members and therapist are more active, more concerned with the here and now, with the presenting situation, with interaction, relationships, than would be the case in the individual situation on the couch. A further word as to therapy and its dynamics may be added concerning the whole problem of dissolution of transference. Perhaps the most important contribution which this technique will make is to a social psychopathology.
