ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the group process closely, it will recognize that it runs through a more or less regular succession of different phases. It has already considered this succession in relation to the Freudian stages of psycho-sexual development and Erikson's eight stages of man. Wolfgang Loch had applied a similar model to brief individual therapy. The chapter introduces the dimension of time into this three-layers-model, then we can figure out a variety of sequences. With the detailed layers-model in front of us we will be able to determine at any point in time how the cross-section of the group process is structured. Successive cross-sections can help to discover possible displacements in the intensity and level of participation in group events. The chapter deals with the end phase of the group process in, taking as our frame of reference Freud's publication of 1937 under the memorable title Analysis Terminable and Interminable.
