ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two papers that have been written in the 1960s, and there is still much to be learnt from our gleanings from the theoretical fields. The paper "Non-transference elements in group psychotherapy" is undated. It is a more than adequate account of Foulkes' model of group psychotherapy given to an international congress where many different approaches are being debated. There is much of interest in the paper "Some theoretical concepts in group psychotherapy" from 1963. These papers were written before Yalom's major work, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy (1970), which since then has gone into five editions. The author thinks it is a feature of the time in which these papers were written that the concept of empathy is not discussed. The strength of empathy arises from commitment to truthful self-knowledge and truthful understanding of others. Through this search for truth, we protect ourselves from self-deception and from deception by others.
