Group analysis combines psychoanalytic insights, with the exploration of interpersonal functioning in a social context. The intention is to achieve a healthier integration of the individual in his or her network of relationships, ie within the family, the community and socially. Group analysis focuses on the relationship between the individual and the rest of the group, emphasising the social nature of human experience through an interactive approach. Group analysis can be applied in many fields of human relations such as teaching, training and organisational consultancy.
The theory is based on the belief that deep lasting change can occur within a carefully selected group, whose combined membership reflects the norms of society. Group analysis views the group as an organic entity, within which the role of the therapist is to hold the group rather than take an active participatory role. The group becomes a dynamic entity of its own, and functions within a socio-cultural context that in turn influences the process.
Related UKCP modality sections:
Council for psychoanalysis and Jungian analysis | 
