ABSTRACT
Psychotherapy offers someone a therapeutic relationship to help them develop a reflective understanding of themselves and others through which reparation can promote healing, growth and change. This chapter talks about the distinctions between the dimensions that are notional rather than fundamental and are introduced here to lay the groundwork for understanding. It describes the distinction which anticipates those to come in between a therapy group's relational and semantic fields and those to come in between the real, the constructed and the representational in group therapy. Group-analytic psychotherapy is integrative and brings psychodynamics together with the social. The relational, reflective and reparative dimensions give "the three Rs" of the model and provide a conceptual framework, a kind of tripod, that supports the text. The relevance of the model to individual practice can be explored in Holmes's 'tripartite division of psychoanalytic interactions' that describes 'the three components of an attachment-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy'.
