ABSTRACT
A therapeutic relationship is offered in order to help develop reflective understanding of self and others in interaction, thereby facilitating a reparative experience that promotes psychological growth and change. To achieve a semblance of this process, in the context of a group so riven by primitive anxieties as this one was, is no mean feat for group or conductor. Cohesion is the group equivalent of the therapeutic alliance in dyadic work and is maintained through the relationship between individuals and the group-as-a-whole. Monologues characterised this group. Although a valid form of communication in this group they seemed particularly resistant to development – into freer-flowing forms of exchange. S. H. Foulkes notes how the conductor's understanding of his group: rests on his own empathy. Cohesion is the group equivalent of the therapeutic alliance in dyadic work and is maintained through the relationship between individuals and the group-as-a-whole.
