Group-analytic training, in order to fulfil its purpose, cannot function on lines different from the philosophy of its own practice, that is, of group-analytic psychotherapy. The author's view is that group-analytic training is like a pendulum between psychoanalysis and Therapeutic Community. `Whenever it is in need of power it turns towards psycho-analysis and when it has a feeling of strength it moves towards the TC philosophy, and utilizes its ideas, principles and practice.'
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