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January 25, 1949. ON GROUP ANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY. S. H. Foulkes, M.D.
Group Analytic Psychotherapy or Group Analysis is a form of psychotherapy, not of psychoanalysis, and its frame of reference is the group as a whole. The group situation introduces new features not present in individual psychoanalysis. Group analysis has in common with psychoanalysis its clinical and theoretical orientation. It focuses on the dynamics of the group but is concerned with the social integration of the individual. All the mechanisms observed in individual analysis are involved but special stress is placed on the existence of group