ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the possible sources of the defensive reaction on the part of many therapists to group work and also point out that even group therapists have considerable resistance to doing group therapy. The chapter is dedicated to the memory of Hugh Mullan, MD. Emotional thinking leads to changing, disrupting and/or re-organizing one's emotional and psychological structures. Mullan's willingness to do the disclose his unguarded subjectivity made us equals in their humanness and need to be connected, and the approach is consistent with notions of contemporary relational authors such as Aron Benjamin, Hoffman, Mitchell, and Miller. The notion of central importance to many relational theoreticians is that of enactment. It is hard to know exactly when this term started to be used in psychotherapy discourse. The relationalists have re-defined it, emphasizing perspectivism, the philosophical view that the world may be understood through a variety of belief systems and that there is no one true vision of reality.
