ABSTRACT
Spontaneous images of the group often arise during art therapy workshops. They are often linked to preoccupations of the group at that time, with the conductor, with their lives outside, with their interpersonal relationships elsewhere on the course. During the final stages of a block training programme for medical personnel in Bulgaria, one member produced "Plate 6a", which he described as a symbol of 'the State'. It is a huge bulldozer which is about to crush two small people. They are standing rather precariously on top of two spheres which are themselves perched on somewhat fragile bases. The image is complex because the two people could be the intended future co-ordinators of the art therapy project or the two conductors or symbolic of male and female about to be overcome by the power of the group or the larger society outside.
