ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about norms, goals, roles, cohesiveness, and structure. It discusses each of these constructs generally in relation to group dynamics and specifically in terms of the visible group and the invisible group. Social norms differ, not only between societies, but between different groups within the same society. Infants grow into members of their society by learning the social norms. Norms function as implicit modifiers or prescriptions for group behavior. The concept goal implies a location, or a preferred state, and this location provides an impetus to movement toward such a state or location. The therapy group has the explicit goal of providing therapeutic experience for its members. In this case, the explicit group goal, to do therapy, is incongruent with the implicit group goal, to have magic done. Individual satisfactions that contribute to cohesiveness can 'sound' the same from one person to another, but can mean very different things in terms of individual dynamics.
