ABSTRACT
The clinical and theoretical component of the Qualifying Course of the Institute of Group Analysis spans three academic years, during which time students are required to conduct two weekly groups under supervision at the Institute. The first training group is set up in the second term and is a mixed adult outpatient stranger group of psychoneurotic patients which continues throughout the training period and longer if so required by the Training Committee; there is no obligation to terminate this group at the end of the training period. The second, recently introduced, is set up at the end of the second year to commence at the beginning of the final year and is an approved time-limited patient group which terminates at the end of the course and which reflects the many different interests and work experiences of the students, for example inpatient groups, children’s groups, groups for elderly patients, couples’ groups, groups of women sexually abused in childhood and other homogeneous or single-sex groups.
