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The volume is a collection of 21 essays in honor of Saul Scheidlinger, Ph.D., celebrating “the first forty years” of his contributions to psychoanalytic group psychotherapy. The authors are eminent group therapists and theorists who pay tribute to their mentor and friend; it is a fitting tribute. The essays cover the entire field of groups, and they are skillfully held together by references to Scheidlinger's ideas.
Margaret G. Frank, for instance, following his advice to integrate theory and practice, applies ego psychology and object relations theory to the group therapy of latency-aged children and presents some vignettes that beautifully demonstrate how she works on affect differentiation, on learning to relate in new ways, on protection against ego regression, and on strivings for autonomy.
Walter I. Gadlin, referring to a paper by Scheidlinger, defines the scapegoating process psychoanalytically and follows its use from Biblical times through the centuries to the present.
This leads to the next essay in which John E. Mack points to the Holocaust as an extreme example of group psychopathology. Frightening to him is the