Reflections on group psychotherapy
Reflections on group psychotherapy

Summary/Abstract: Group therapy is one of the foundation forms of psychotherapy that has occurred over theyears. It has been used in a multitude of ways and varies widely in how it is structured, how manyclients are involved and so forth. Eric Berne’s original practice of transactional analysis was a grouptherapy because this way he could see the transactions between the various group members.I have used the group approach to psychotherapy for over forty years and this paper looks at justa few of the reflections, observations and techniques that I have developed for group therapy inthat time. This includes the three different types of permissions, use of the carom transaction ingroup therapy, the role of the immediate transactional relationship and the commonality betweengroup therapy and family therapy.

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