About Group Analysis
Group analysis, or group-analytic psychotherapy, is a psychotherapeutic method that uses the group to foster healthier individual and relational integration, based on the social nature of human beings. It draws on concepts from psychoanalysis, social psychology and sociology, as well as anthropology.
The founders of group analysis in Britain were S. H. Foulkes, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Norbert Elias, a sociologist, in Argentina, Enrique Pichon-Rivière, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Group analysis has a wide range of applications: from the treatment of numerous psychological and psychosomatic disorders to helping people understand and overcome a variety of problems within families, organisations and other social groups.
Group-analytic groups usually meet for 90 minutes and take different forms: small groups of around 8 members (ranging from 3 to 12), median groups (12 to 30 members), and large groups (more than 30 members).
