ABSTRACT
Group analysis rests on a paradox: the conductor is the only person in the group who carries the authority of a professional therapist, yet it is the group as a whole which carries the professional authority . . . (and so) to embrace both wings of this paradox, the conductor has to move adroitly between two positions: one which allows the group to determine the flow of the therapy, and one which enables the conductor to assert (their) own therapeutic authority when necessary, perhaps against the current of the group at the time.
