History and analysis of a leaderless group of professional therapists.
The authors describe the experiences of a group of 11 psychiatrists and psychologists who met for 3 years with the initial purpose of providing peer supervision in group therapy. The group became a basic assumption dependency group in which all members had both realistic and magical expectations for help with their personal lives, and a resulting attempted transformation into a leaderless therapy group was a failure. The authors indicate that the experiences of this group illustrate some of the functions of group-leader interaction in allowing group and individual growth.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006127:Group Structure; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010379:Peer Group; D011570:Psychiatry; D011584:Psychology; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group