ON THE IRRELEVANCE OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN MASS CONFLICT

Abstract

I would like to take this opportunity to deplore the increasing application of psychiatric concepts to larger national and international relations. In some respects psychiatrists extend their interests to these immense social problems with the best intentions. We see all about us confused and troubled people and try to apply the psychodynamic formulations of the consulting room to the whole complex world. Our good intentions cannot however conceal the irrelevance of our proposals. In other respects our suggestions betray a grandiosity that impresses the listener less with the validity of our "Vast therapeutic overtures than with the fact that we are ourselves diseases