Introduction to Group-Analytic Psychotherapy

S.H. Foulkes (1898-1976) was born in Karlsruhe, and received his psychoanalytic training in the late 1920's in Vienna under Helene Deutsch. After some years in private practice he left Germany in 1933 and, after a brief stay in Geneva, settled in London at the invitation of Ernest Jones. During the 1940s he began to formulate the principles and methods of Group Analysis and Group-Analytical Psychotherapy. In 1952, with others, he founded the Group Analytic Society, and was still actively involved with teaching, lecturing and participation in group seminars until the time of his death.

• Foreword -- Preface -- General Introduction -- The individual as a whole in a total situation -- The Study of the Group -- The Psychoanalytic Situation. -- The Group Analytic Situation. -- The Background -- The Therapist. -- Combined and uncombined Groups. -- Open and Closed Groups -- Phase B, "The Northfield Experiment" -- Group Work in the Various Phases. -- The Group-Analytic Situation -- Selection, Grouping. -- Time Factors -- Resumé. -- The Conductor's Contribution -- Three basic principles -- The Group-analytic Situation in operation -- Treating a Ward. -- Treating a Hospital -- Spot-Lights from Group-analytic work -- The Location of a Disturbance -- The Conductor's Contribution -- The Conductor's Qualifications -- Training -- Survey -- Group Analysis and its Relation to Other Approaches -- Some Forms of Group Treatment; Views on Indications, Selection, Dynamics of Therapy