ABSTRACT
This short paper deals with the Bionic notion of the "work group" in a family structure and its relation to the development of dependency in the transference in psychoanalysis. It shows how, in moments of crisis, the basic assumption organization asserts itself in a family group—a theme already touched upon in the 1976 paper, "A Psychoanalytic Model of the Child-in-the-Family-in-the-Community"*.