ABSTRACT
Each group develops its own unique idiom and character, and the group analyst can be unobtrusive to its development and expression. The analyst unobtrusively companions the group in the flow of enactive engagement and in the emergent narratives of trauma and regression that emerge. The unobtrusive group analyst companions the group as areas of diffusion, confusion, and damage arise between group members and in the group-as-a-whole. Greta, an unmarried white woman in her mid-forties, has been attending this ongoing group for two years. She initially came to group for help with persistent depression and a growing feeling of despair that she would never find a life partner or advance professionally. It is as if the group is displaying a narrative that has yet to have meaning. The group process is healing in and of itself, and the group analyst is unobtrusive yet deeply engaged in this process.
