ABSTRACT
The group psychotherapy I will be alluding to is that originated by S.H.Foulkes during and after the Second World War. Its roots are in sociology and psychoanalysis as opposed to medicine. Members of analytic groups can come from a wider population than ‘patients’ needing ‘treatment’. Foulksian group analysis is treatment of the individual in the group, of the group, and by the group, including its conductor. Group therapists work in many situations, including hospitals, private practices, industrial organisations, support or charitable organisations, and with groups of varying sizes, from the analytic small group of eight to median groups of around twenty and large groups of sixty to 200 people.
