ABSTRACT
The practice of group work involves a dialectical and syncretizing process, and the group worker, if he is to be in any way creative, is required to embrace and reconcile a number of contradictions and opposing truths. Indeed, the power and efficacy of the medium is a function of the degree to which a worker can creatively transcend two apparent paradoxes. These paradoxes can be stated in the form of assertions which I believe represent four cornerstones of group-work practice.
