ABSTRACT
Group-analytic psychotherapy is a method of group psychotherapy initiated by myself from 1940 onwards in private psychiatric practice and out-patient clinics. It grew out of and is inspired by my experiences as a psychoanalyst, but it is not a psychoanalysis of individuals in a group. No such form of group psychotherapy existed at the time, neither in this country nor on the continent of Europe, or elsewhere, including the USA, as postwar acquaintance proved. Group-analytic psychotherapy has not only been consistently developing and expanding, but its characteristics, its principles in practice and theory. The account confines itself to group-analytic psychotherapy, or for short and in a slightly more comprehensive meaning group analysis, but it can serve as a useful model for all forms of deep-going group psychotherapy, insofar as they are concerned not merely with helping to alleviate suffering.
