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Abstract

The third group session consists of eight psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists, Drs. H. L. Ansbacher, Robert R. Blake, John M. Butler, Rudolf Dreikurs, W. Lynn Smith, Walter Bromberg, J. L. Moreno and Serge Lebovici. The most outstanding characteristic of the psychiatric revolution now on the way is that the problem has changed. The cardinal problem of our time is not the psychopathology of the pathological individuals-the mental patients and the criminals-the cardinal problem is the "pathology of the normal group". Mental patients and criminals are small minorities which are put away into the safety of prisons and insane asylums. It is the normal group which is responsible for the general social and moral decay, for the wars and revolutions which have proven to be unconstructive and unable to fulfill the promises its leaders make