ABSTRACT
Mental disorder is an industrial problem - a problem in how to get along. It is also an organic physiological problem - a problem in biological economy. The biological economy of an organism is the functional integrity of its parts. Group or social analysis is the analysis of the immediate group in the immediate moment. The number of persons composing a group session has come to be limited, empirically, to about ten. As now arranged, the sessions are held once weekly and continue for one hour. The object of the group analysis is to give to the individual the opportunity to express himself in a social setting without the inhibitions of customary social images. Upon bringing to light the manifestations of the latent social content, it would seem that these manifestations consist of feelings that would tend to place each individual opposite to, and in a relation of, transference or moralistic dependence upon every other individual.
