'Analytic' psychotherapy may be practiced with natural or family groups and with more typical anonymous groups. In the family groups conjoint psychotherapy with the family members is particularly useful in dealing with upsets in the family homeostasis (e.g., when one marital partner achieves significant improvement in individual treatment), and in working with current re-enactments of previous pathogenic family relationships.

Foulkes describes group therapy as psychoanalytic when the group leader maintains an analytic attitude and transference phenomena develop in the course of treatment. Although the author recognizes that there are some differences in the transference he finds on the basis of weekly group sessions in which many reactions are responses to real events in the meetings, he does not detail these differences nor the theoretical problems involved. He feels that the resistances and defenses can be analyzed, the transference interpreted and resolved, and the infantile mode of relating to parental figures replaced by greater independence.