Group psychotherapy was pioneered by S. H. Foulkes with his psychoanalytic patients and later with soldiers in the Northfield experiments at Hollymoor Hospital.
Group analysis combines psychoanalytic insights with an understanding of social and interpersonal functioning.
Problems are seen at the level of group, organisation or institutional system; not solely in the individual sufferer, as they do in prevailing medical models.
Democracy and co-operation are the pillars through which group-mediated solutions to problems can flow in ways that are enduring.
Group analysis is the dominant psychodynamic approach outside the United States and Canada.