It is proposed that Group Analysis, theoretically and practically, provides a useful approach to the study and treatment of psychosomatic problems. It highlights the struggle to move from a restricted internalisation and somatisation of emotional difficulties to their understanding and resolution within a new network of relationships (the therapeutic group). This throws into relief and reveals their origin in the world of internal objects and the pervading social matrix, as well as in the individual's current life situation.

Further communication and verbalisation are encouraged by the example of others in the group, especially by those who have already trodden the path from somatisation to fuller expression of themselves. A clinical example is used to illustrate this process, the difficulties are discussed and the need for a range of treatments, physical, individual and group emphasised.