ABSTRACT
Transference is as important in psychoanalytic group therapy as it is in individual psychoanalysis. When pathological dyadic relationships are reactivated in the group the transference is not always directed towards the conductor, but often just towards another participant. The transferences occur in the group as well as in individual analysis. The difference in transferences led eventually to quite definite and different structures in the two groups. Louise started by saying that the gist of the matter was to admit frankly to each other what one really felt. She centred all her hopes on Dr. Kutter. The deep-seated problems Mary and Louise had, fitted in well with this attitude. These two women were the ones who felt most directly the group's position of unconscious expectation and managed to verbalize it most clearly. Concrete family situations as the participants had experienced them in childhood came to form the configuration in family transferences.
