ABSTRACT
When group analysis is used as a method of psychotherapy it is called group-analytic psychotherapy (G.A.P.). When no external restrictions limit its course, e.g. in private practice it has proved to be an intensive and deep going form of psychotherapy. Its effects can only be compared to prolonged individual psychoanalytic treatment and in many cases it seems superior to this in its therapeutic effect. There is no doubt that an intensive form of psychotherapy results from a combination with individual interviews. The number of patients might drop by one, two or three below eight, but it should not exceed that number. The group takes the form of 'slow-open' groups, individuals being introduced as vacancies occur from time to time. The particular problems which arise under conditions such as these can briefly be put thus: too many patients, among them a high proportion of difficult ones, to be treated in too short a time by doctors relatively inexperienced in psychotherapy.
