ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on a paper read in January 1949 to the American Group Psychotherapy Association in New York who had invited author to talk on leadership. The group-analytic situation has peculiar features which have developed from its therapeutic intentions. The group-analytic situation is a valuable tool for psychotherapy and for the scientific study of human beings in a social setting. It seems of particular importance that the observer avoid the fallacy of transferring the concepts gained from the psychology of the isolated individual, in particular psycho-analytic concepts, too readily to this new field of observation. In this way the problems and observations of the group therapist and group analyst become available as immediate contributions to the study of the group elsewhere and vice versa. With this orientation in the mind of the conductor, the group-analytic situation becomes the natural meeting ground of the biologist, anthropologist, sociologist and psycho-analyst.
