ABSTRACT

Generally speaking, issues of authority present interesting food for thought in practice with groups. To the extent that a mutual-aid system must have the privileges and responsibilities of managing its own affairs, however, as Gertrude Wilson and Gladys Ryland (1949) stated it, issues of authority may be said to present essential food for thought (see, for example, Galinsky and Schopler 1977; Konopka 1983; Kurland and Salmon 1993; Lang 1986; Middleman and Wood 1990a; Newstetter 1935; Northen and Kurland 2001; Schwartz and Zalba 1971; Shulman 1999; Trecker 1955; Wilson and Ryland 1949).