ABSTRACT
The group-analytic situation must have its own particular features, its own special rules of behaviour, its own code of what is permissible or not. This is very different from life under ordinary conditions. Good Group treatment—by developing a good Group—makes both processes go hand in hand: the reinforcement of the communal ground and the freer development of the individual differences. Theodore M. Newcomb makes a number of statements of relevance for Group Therapy. The Group need not deal in so many words with the infantile, instinctive eroticisms and the concomitant details of intimate sex life perversions, excretory activities and so on. It can therefore express its problems sufficiently within the acceptable boundaries. "Open Air" Treatment takes place under ordinary Life Conditions, but is concerned with a particular Group or Group situation, for instance a Group of Business Managers in a big concern, or, in terms of Northfield, a Group of soldiers working in a project in the Carpentry Hut.
