ABSTRACT
Group work in a therapeutic community (TC) takes many forms. There are the fun groups, the purely practical ‘Who is not taking their turn at washing up?’ groups, psychodrama, drama therapy and art groups, and much social interaction between each of the organised and scheduled activities. In the Winterbourne community at Fair Mile in Berkshire these groups are threaded together to form a cohesive pattern by an underlying structure of small-and large-group analysis.
