This volume on groups emphasises the importance of a psychoanalytic analysis, as opposed to a behaviourist account. Work by Foulkes and Bion is reconsidered in the light of current clinical practice by Robin Cooper and Michael Halton, and the American scene is represented through an essay by Otto Kernberg, using Freud's work on group psychology.
This book is about the therapist's professional matrix, both visible and invisible. It is about how clinicians manage the web of professional connections that inform, control, bother and console us whilst we struggle with our client's inner world.