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THE REPUBLICATION in Contemporary Psychoanalysis of a work originally reported by Henry Ezriel in the official organ of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science fifteen years ago affords a welcome opportunity to American clinicians for first-hand acquaintance with the views of a research-oriented English practitioner of analytic pyschotherapy whose work is best known in this country through secondary sources. Ezriel and his Tavistock Clinic associates, Bion and Foulkes, have pioneered in the development of systems of group have pioneered in the development of systems of group psychotherapy whose theoretical similarities and differences have been elucidated in the American professional literature, notably by Durkin (1964), Berne (1966), Parloff (1968) and Yalom (1970). Ezriel's system in toto, which takes account of group-level forces as well as applying concepts derived from the psychoanalytic situation, is reviewed more extensively by Whitaker and Lieberman (1964). They acknowledge Ezriel's strong influence on their so-called psychotherapy through the group process.