ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the three dimensions of the group rather than of its therapy. It takes these dimensions together using the outline they give as follows: The psychotherapeutic situation is analysed in terms of structure, process and content: Structure concerns patterns of relationships that are relatively stable and continuous. The visible elements of the group's dynamic life devolve first upon the conductor's understanding and careful but discrete work with the dimensions of structure, process and content. Two groups described in the following vignettes illustrate work with these dimensions. Vignette 8.1 describes a series of structural interventions to address boundary events during enactments in a new group in which members are repeating through their troubled terms of attendance the very problems that brought them for help in the first place. Vignette 8.2, by contrast, is taken from a group that has been running productively for many years with a slow, steady turnover of members.
