COLLABORATION OF THERAPIST AND OBSERVER IN GUIDING GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY'

Abstract

There is general agreement that it is notoriously difficult to convey an accurate picture of what happens in psychotherapy. One of the greatest handicaps to progress Of knowledge in this field is the difficulty in reporting accurately what goes on. The problem is bad enough in individual therapy where it is hard for the therapist to participate and observe simultaneously. It is worse in group psychotherapy because of the greater complexity of the multilateral and fluctuating relationships there.' In group psychotherapy, however, it is relatively easy to add some person as observer in addition to the therapist, whereas the situational limits of individual therapy tend to preclude the presence of a third person