BILL BARNES was, until his death, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and the Clinical Director of the NHS Consultation and Psychotherapy Service in Liverpool.SHEILA ERNST is a Training Group Analyst with the Group Analyst Network and teaches at Birkbeck College and the Institute of Group Analysis. She is co-author (with Lucy Goodison) of In Our Own Hands and co-editor of Living with the Sphinx (with Marie Maguire).KEITH HYDE is a Group Analyst, Consultant Psychotherapist and Clinical Director of a new Therapeutic Community. Formerly he was Medical Director of an NHS Mental Health Trust and Convenor of the Manchester Course in Group Psychotherapy.

• Foreword by Jeremy HolmesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Looking at GroupsThe Individual and the GroupGrowing a GroupWhat Happens in a Group?Working in the Group: Negotiating the BoundariesWorking in the Group: Intervention and InterpretationsDifferences in Groups: Homogeneity and HeterogeneityWorking TogetherOn Becoming a Group TherapistGlossaryBibliography.