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This paper discusses the significant role played by Hyman Spotnitz in the growth and development of the theory and practice of analytic group psychotherapy in its formative years shortly after World War II. Among his contributions are the identification of powerful, unconscious emotional constellations in groups, his very early recognition of the group's capacity to function as a whole in relation to the therapist, and the application of Freud's categories of resistance to the group setting. His lifelong study of the resistances in groups is also recognized.